Dictionary Definition
drenched adj
1 wet through and through; thoroughly wet; "stood
at the door drenched (or soaked) by the rain"; "a shirt saturated
with perspiration"; "his shoes were sopping (or soaking)"; "the
speaker's sodden collar"; "soppy clothes" [syn: saturated, soaked, soaking, sodden, sopping, soppy]
2 abundantly covered or supplied with; often used
in combination; "drenched in moonlight"; "moon-drenched meadows"
[syn: drenched
in]
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English
Adjective
drenchedTranslations
- Scots: drookeet
Verb
drenched- past of drench
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
addled,
awash, bathed, beery, bemused, besotted, blind drunk, bloated, bursting, choked, congested, crammed, crapulent, crapulous, crowded, deluged, dipped, distended, dizzy, dribbling, dripping, dripping wet,
drowned, drunk, drunken, engulfed, far-gone, filled to
overflowing, flooded,
flustered, fou, full, gay, giddy, glorious, glutted, gorged, happy, hyperemic, immersed, in liquor, in spate,
inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, intoxicated, inundated, jam-packed,
jammed, jolly, macerated, maudlin, mellow, merry, muddled, nappy, oozing, overblown, overburdened, overcharged, overfed, overflowed, overflowing, overfraught, overfreighted, overfull, overladen, overloaded, overstocked, overstuffed, oversupplied, overweighted, packed, permeated, plethoric, ready to burst,
reeling, running over,
satiated, saturated, seeping, shikker, soaked, soaking, soaking wet, soaky, sodden, soggy, sopping, sopping wet, soppy, sotted, soused, steeped, stuffed, stuffed up, submerged, submersed, supercharged, supersaturated, surcharged, surfeited, swamped, swollen, tiddly, tipsy, under the influence,
waterlogged,
watersoaked,
weeping, weltering, wet, whelmed, wringing
wet