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 drenching
 濕透

 Drench v. t. [imp. & p. p. Drenched p. pr. & vb. n. Drenching.]
 1. 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.
    As =\“to fell,” is “to make to fall,” and “to lay,” to make to lie.” so “to drench,” is “to make to drink.”\=   --Trench.
 2. To steep in moisture; to wet thoroughly; to soak; to saturate with water or other liquid; to immerse.
 Now dam the ditches and the floods restrain;
 Their moisture has already drenched the plain.   --Dryden.

 drenching
      n : the act of making something completely wet; "he gave it a
          good drenching" [syn: soaking, souse, sousing]