Drenched

Definition: Drenched

Drenched

Adjective

1. Wet through and through; thoroughly wet; "stood at the door drenched (or soaked) by the rain"; "a shirt saturated with perspiration"; "his shoes were sopping (or soaking)"; "the speaker's sodden collar"; "soppy clothes".

2. Abundantly covered or supplied with; often used in combination; "drenched in moonlight"; "moon-drenched meadows".

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Date "drenched" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Drenched

Redundancy

Adjective: redundant; too much, too many; exuberant, inordinate, superabundant, excessive, overmuch, replete, profuse, lavish; prodigal; exorbitant; overweening; extravagant; overcharged; Verb: supersaturated, drenched, overflowing; running over, running to waste, running down.

Crosswords: Drenched

Something that wakes them up from a deep sleep in the middle of the night, drenched in sweat, reaching for the bedside lamp (Third Watch; writing credit: Grant Taylor)

I mean it's drenched with historical goodies, likeoh dear, you're staring at my dress (The Producers; writing credit: Mel Brooks)

Try this on for sizeBlood drenched frozen tampon popsicle (South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut; writing credit: Trey Parker; Matt Stone)

And accept it that soon you’ll be drenched to the bone ("The Times They Are A-Changin'"; performing artist: Bob Dylan)

My heart is drenched in wine (Don't Know Why; performing artist: Norah Jones)

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Books

• Drenched in Blood, Rigid in Death : The True Story of the Wickenburg Massacre (reference)

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the sponge is already drenched.

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Expressions using "drenched": be drenched in blood ♦ be drenched to the skin ♦ drenched in ♦ drenched in blood ♦ drenched in tears ♦ drenched to the skin ♦ drenched with rain. Additional references.

Ending with "drenched": blood-drenched, rain-drenched.

Albanian

gjakosem (be covered with blood, be drenched in blood). (various references)

Arabic 

‏منقوع (saturated, soaked, steeped). (various references)

Bulgarian 

подгизнал (oozy, soaked, soaking wet, sopping, soppy, waterlogged, water-sick). (various references)

Chinese 

透湿 (Drench). (various references)

Czech

být promoklý až na kùži (be drenched to the skin). (various references)

Finnish

läpimärkä (soaked, wet through). (various references)

French

trempé. (various references)

German

durchnäßt (soaked, soaks, soddened), platschnass (dripping wet, soaking wet), klitschnass (soaking wet, sopping wet). (various references)

Greek 

μούσεκμα (soaking). (various references)

Hungarian

csuromvizes (dripping wet, to be completely drenched), csuromvíz (completely drenched). (various references)

Indonesian

tersimbah (spattered). (various references)

Italian

inzuppato (saturated, soggy). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

びしょ濡れ (a slap in the face, at the bottom, closely packed, crowded close, dabbling, flutter, flutteringly, last on the list, like an electric shock, rattling, ripping, splashing, wet through, wet to the skin). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

びっしょり (wet through). (various references)

Norwegian

gjennomvåt. (various references)

Pig Latin

encheddray.(various references)

Romanian

ud pânã la piele (drenched to the skin, like a drowned rat, wet to the bone, wet to the skin). (various references)

Russian 

промокать промокший. (various references)

Swedish

dränkte, dränkt. (various references)

Turkish

yağmurdan sırılsıklam olmuş (drenched with rain), kan revan içinde kalmış (drenched in blood), iliklerine kadar ıslanmış (drenched to the skin, soaked to the skin, soaking wet, wet through, wet to the skin), göz yaşlarına boğulmuş (drenched in tears). (various references)

madidus, perfusus. (various references)

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Derivations

Words ending with "drenched": bedrenched. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Drenched" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dranked, Drenchev, dretched, drinched, drunked, frenched. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: cheder, decern, drench, herded, redden, rended.

-3 letters: ceded, ceder, cered, cheer, creed, dreed, eched, ended, ender, heder, hence, reded.

-4 letters: cede, cere, deed, deer, dene, dere, dree, eche, erne, heed, herd, here, hern, need, nerd, redd, rede, reed, rend.

-5 letters: cee, dee, den, edh, end, ere, ern, hen, her, nee, rec, red, ree.

+2 letters: bedrenched, decahedron.

+3 letters: decahedrons.

+4 letters: candleholder, chandeliered, comprehended, dodecahedron, merchandised, merchandized, undeciphered, undercharged.

+5 letters: candleholders, dechlorinated, dodecahedrons, schadenfreude, underachieved.