Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which drenches or wets.
- noun One who administers a drench to a beast.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, west or steeps.
- noun One who administers a drench.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who, or that which,
drenches .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Back here in S'pore, we received another all-day drencher this past Tuesday, although conditions weren't quite as bad as last week.
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Back here in S'pore, we received another all-day drencher this past Tuesday, although conditions weren't quite as bad as last week.
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The weather broke and there was a sudden sharp storm, the sort of summer drencher which ends a great heat, accompanied by a good deal of thunder.
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The weather broke and there was a sudden sharp storm, the sort of summer drencher which ends a great heat, accompanied by a good deal of thunder.
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Mr. Mabie said that when it did come we'd likely get a drencher.
The Outdoor Chums After Big Game Or, Perilous Adventures in the Wilderness
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A thunderstorm went by to the north and flicked its wing over the island, and in the night there came a drencher and a howling wind slap over us.
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Certain things were clear to her now; the unknown drencher of beds, the stranger who had appeared from nowhere and had left her father senseless, were no longer mysteries.
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Well, the race was run that year in a thunderstorm -- a drencher; and if Foe was right, I guess that finished Gouvernant, who never looked like a winner.
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Their sleep was disturbed by showers of rain, which interfered with all but the very sound, and even these were fairly roused at last by a regular drencher, the water coming down tropical fashion, in bucketfuls.
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Now and then he cast a weather-eye on the heavens, and was soon confirmed in an opinion he had repeatedly ejaculated, that 'the first night's camping would be a drencher.'
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