drench

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• transitive verb To wet through and through; soak.
• transitive verb To administer a large oral dose of liquid medicine to (an animal).
• transitive verb To provide with something in great abundance; surfeit.
• noun The act of wetting or becoming wet through and through.
• noun Something that drenches.
• noun A large dose of liquid medicine, especially one administered to an animal by pouring down the throat.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A less correct form of dreng.
• To wet thoroughly; soak; steep; fill or cover with water or other liquid: as, garments drenched with rain or in the sea; swords drenched in blood; the flood has drenched the earth.
• To gorge or satiate with a fluid: as, he drenched himself with liquor.
• Specifically, to administer liquid physic to abundantly, especially in a forcible way.
• . To drown.
• To subject (hides) to the effect of soaking and stirring in a solution of animal excrements or an alkaline solution.
• To drown.
• noun A drink; a draught.
• noun A large draught of fluid; an inordinate drink.
• noun Hence A draught of physic; specifically, a dose of medicine for a beast, as a horse.
• noun That with or in which something is drenched; a provision or preparation for drenching or steeping.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A drink; a draught; specifically, a potion of medicine poured or forced down the throat; also, a potion that causes purging.
• noun (O. Eng. Law), obsolete A military vassal mentioned in Domesday Book.
• transitive verb To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physic.
• transitive verb To steep in moisture; to wet thoroughly; to soak; to saturate with water or other liquid; to immerse.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A draught administered to an animal.
• verb To soak, to make very wet.
• noun obsolete, UK A military vassal, mentioned in the Domesday Book.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb permeate or impregnate
• verb drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged
• verb force to drink
• verb cover with liquid; pour liquid onto