drench
verb (used with object)
to wet thoroughly; soak.
drencher
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a word derived from
drench.
Example Sentences
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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
He said that about five years ago there had been a light shower, and during one of the Ptolemy administrations there had been a regular old drencher.
From In Pastures New by George Ade
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
