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Definition: Drenching |
DrenchingNoun1. The act of making something completely wet; "he gave it a good drenching". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "drenching" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references) |
Synonyms: DrenchingSynonyms: soaking (n), souse (n), sousing (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
River | Rain, rainfall; serein; shower, scud; downpour; driving rain, drenching rain, cloudburst; hyetology, hyetography; predominance of Aquarius, reign of St. Swithin; mizzle, drizzle, stillicidum, plash; dropping. Verb: falling weather; northeaster, hurricane, typhoon. |
Water | Adjective: watery, aqueous, aquatic, hydrous, lymphatic; balneal, diluent; drenching. Verb: diluted. Verb: weak; wet. (moist). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Drenching |
| English words defined with "drenching": char, coal. (references) |
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Consumer Goods | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Fyodor Dostoyevski | They think to order all things wisely; but having rejected Christ they will end by drenching the world with blood. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
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Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | And we are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Within an hour or two, the patient's temperature rises, and the skin feels hot and dry. Then, as the body temperature falls, a drenching sweat begins. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Drenching" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 85.37% of the time. "Drenching" is used about 41 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 85.37% | 35 | 58,339 |
| Noun (singular) | 7.32% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 7.32% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 41 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "drenching": drenching rain. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
drenching | 5 |
cum drenching | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "drenching"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 麸液脱灰. (various references) | ||||||||||
French | pluie battante (drenching rain, driving rain). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | durchnässend (soaking, sodding). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hebrew | "שקא" (irrigation, watering). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | penetrante (discerning, fine, incisive, keen, penetrating, pervasive, piercing, piping, pointed, searching, sharp). (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | fliugh-liaghee (drenching rain), fliaghey fliugh (drenching rain). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | enchingdray dränkande. (various references) | ||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | infusio. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "drenching": bedrenching. (additional references) | |
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"Drenching" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: drenchings, frenching. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "drenching" (pronounced dre"nkhing) |
| 6 | -r e" n kh i ng | entrenching, retrenching, wrenching. |
| 5 | -e" n kh i ng | quenching. |
| 4 | -n kh i ng | branching, bunching, clinching, crunching, flinching, inching, launching, lunching, lynching, munching, pinching, punching, ranching, stanching, unflinching. |
| 3 | -kh i ng | approaching, arching, attaching, beaching, belching, bleaching, breaching, broaching, catching, clutching, coaching, crouching, dispatching, ditching, encroaching, enriching, etching, fetching, hatching, hitching, impeaching, itching, latching, leaching, lurching, marching, matching, mulching, overarching, overreaching, patching, pitching, poaching, preaching, reaching, researching, retouching, scorching, scratching, screeching, searching, sketching, slouching, snatching, snitching, squelching, stitching, stretching, switching, teaching, torching, touching, twitching, vouching, watching, witching. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-g-h-i-n-n-r" | |
-2 letters: chinned, cringed, grinned, herding, rending. | |
-3 letters: ceding, cering, chider, chined, cinder, cringe, dinger, dinner, dreich, dreigh, drench, driegh, eching, ending, endrin, engird, enrich, ginned, ginner, girned, grinch, herdic, hinder, hinged, hinger, inched, niched, nighed, nigher, reding, richen, ringed. | |
-4 letters: chide, chine, cider, cried, deign, dicer, diner, dinge, dirge, genic, gride, grind, hider, hinge. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-g-h-i-n-n-r" | |
+1 letter: chagrinned. | |
+2 letters: bedrenching. | |
+3 letters: interchanged. | |
+4 letters: comprehending, grandchildren, merchandising, merchandizing, undercharging, underclothing. | |
+5 letters: countershading, dechlorinating, merchandisings, merchandizings, underachieving, underclothings. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 72 65 6E 63 68 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .-. . -. -.-. .... .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01110010 01100101 01101110 01100011 01101000 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D r e n c h i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0072 0065 006E 0063 0068 0069 006E 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)388471806974758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Translations: Ancient | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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