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- noun Plural form of
drenching .
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Examples
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They were just emerging from a second wave of monsoons, the bedraggled survivors of weeks and weeks of daily drenchings.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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My own grandchildren have played host to these persistent parasites -- which have a way of withstanding repeated comb-outs and drenchings with powerful insect-killing shampoos.
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: Nitpicking the Lousy Facts on Head Lice M.D. Glenn D. Braunstein 2011
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Your historic snowfalls, record-setting cold snaps and droughts followed by drenchings and mudslides may have soured many spirits during those dreary months.
Spring has sprung gardeners, and 3 in 4 Americans can dig it 2010
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My own grandchildren have played host to these persistent parasites -- which have a way of withstanding repeated comb-outs and drenchings with powerful insect-killing shampoos.
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: Nitpicking the Lousy Facts on Head Lice M.D. Glenn D. Braunstein 2011
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My own grandchildren have played host to these persistent parasites -- which have a way of withstanding repeated comb-outs and drenchings with powerful insect-killing shampoos.
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: Nitpicking the Lousy Facts on Head Lice M.D. Glenn D. Braunstein 2011
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They were just emerging from a second wave of monsoons, the bedraggled survivors of weeks and weeks of daily drenchings.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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The repeated drenchings in the icy water had likewise had their effect on him.
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My own grandchildren have played host to these persistent parasites -- which have a way of withstanding repeated comb-outs and drenchings with powerful insect-killing shampoos.
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: Nitpicking the Lousy Facts on Head Lice M.D. Glenn D. Braunstein 2011
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Mark Cocker, as well as being a superb birder with the sharpest ears around and a writer of great bird words, is also brilliant company for dirt tracks in Morocco, dawn treks in Turkey, and drenchings on Rum.
A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009
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Computerized sprinkler systems could initiate icy midwinter drenchings.
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