drench
verb (used with object)
to wet thoroughly; soak.
drencher
-
a word derived from
drench.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
For example, Cassidy has discovered that in various parts of the U.S. a heavy rain is called a duck drencher, a chunk floater, a clod roller, a toad strangler and a goose drownder.
From Time Magazine Archive
Say, wouldn’t it be a joke on us now, Jack, if a regular old drencher came on, and soaked us to the skin?
From Jack Winters' Campmates by Mark Overton
Well, the race was run that year in a thunderstorm—a drencher; and if Foe was right, I guess that finished Gouvernant, who never looked like a winner.
From Foe-Farrell by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Certain things were clear to her now; the unknown drencher of beds, the stranger who had appeared from nowhere and had left her father senseless, were no longer mysteries.
From The Angel of Terror by Edgar Wallace
It is going to be a drencher, and it is of no use our getting wet through to begin with.
From Condemned as a Nihilist A Story of Escape from Siberia by Walter Paget
