drench
verb (used with object)
to wet thoroughly; soak.
had drenched
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past perfectof drench.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Storm Elin had drenched and battered much of the country by Saturday afternoon, while Storm Fergus was expected to have a similar impact on Sunday.
From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2023
I soon realized why: I had drenched my salad in balsamic vinegar, which, it turns out, contains a lot of sugar.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2021
What I was remembering, though, was a story in that same newspaper ten years earlier, after a series of rainstorms had drenched the town—warm South Pacific storms meteorologists referred to as the Pineapple Express.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 23, 2018
A storm had drenched the Verdugo mountains, a rugged, rustic outpost of Los Angeles, and unleashed a massive mudslide, forcing them to flee to an improvised evacuation centre in the San Fernando valley.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 14, 2018
The rain had drenched him to the skin; his clothes clung to his lean body, that shook as if it would come apart; his eyes flew wildly, and his teeth chattered against each other.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
