drenching
/dɹˈɛntʃɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.32 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The administering of a medicinal draught to an animal.
Example Sentences
- "We'll be experiencing drenching rain all weekend."
- "In its 5 a.m. update, the National Hurricane Center noted that in its initial entry onto land, the storm remains a drenching, windy threat."
- "They walked me through the dynamics of what made this a particularly drenching storm, why Houston is so susceptible to flooding, and whether the decision not to evacuate the city was the right call."
- "The drenching weather is thanks in part to yet another "atmospheric river" flowing in from the west, as well as an air mass that was particularly moist, the weather service said. Sunday ranked in the 95th percentile for how much moisture was in the atmosphere compared to a "normal" June 5."
- "[…] and it contains a very good selection of shrubs and herbaceous plants, which, having good soil and plentiful drenchings of water from a garden-engine all the summer, thrive to admiration."
- "Horses,^([sic]) get all sorts of medicines, wormings, drenchings, and their food may well have been produced chemically […]"
Etymology
From Middle English drenchyng, drenchynge, drenchende, from Old English drenċende, from Proto-Germanic *drankijandz, present participle of *drankijaną (“to drench”), equivalent to drench + -ing.