Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: drenched
IPA transcription: [dɹ'ɛntʃt]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: drenched, drenched_in
    Meaning: abundantly covered or supplied with; often used in combination; "drenched in moonlight"; "moon-drenched meadows"
Usage examples
  • 'Of course, the church itself is centuries older, drenched with age.
  • "You have drenched me and mine for two hundred and three years, madam.
  • He glowed like a piece of phosphorus that has been drenched with light.
  • The wet snow drenched their gloves; the water underfoot splashed their itching ankles.
  • He went up to a tree in order to take shelter under it, and on that tree he saw some young birds which were being thoroughly drenched.
  • Some were drowned; while others dragged themselves out, drenched and pierced with cold, to die miserably on the frozen lake, before they could reach a shelter.
  • I did not dare return to the apartment which I inhabited, but felt impelled to hurry on, although drenched by the rain which poured from a black and comfortless sky.
  • On the second day they were driven into camp early by heavy rains which drenched clothing, blankets, and even the provisions carefully stored under the saddles and leather saddle-covers.
  • Grandma was called hurriedly in the night, because the afflicted girl, in delirium, had loosened the straps which held her upon her bed, and while her attendant was out of the room had rushed from the house into the rain, and was not found until after she had become thoroughly drenched.
  • Everything in his rooms was ruined--his clocks were rusted in the works; a fine collection of water-color drawings was entirely obliterated by the onslaught of the water ghost; and what was worse, the apartments below his were drenched with the water soaking through the floors, a damage for which he was compelled to pay, and which resulted in his being requested by his landlady to vacate the premises immediately.