He gave it a good drenching. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Verb (used with object) : trees drenched with sunlight. ,to drench a horse. From Dictionary.com.
Noun : a drench of rain. From Dictionary.com.
We managed, however, to escape without any mishap, for the drenching was a boon to our burnt-up skins. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales] Reference
"drenching" them to kill the worms in their stomach. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
Heap corse on corse; blood drenching all the ground. From Wordnik.com. [La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier] Reference
Group plants according to water need to avoid unnecessary drenching. From Wordnik.com. [Gardening Without a Sprinkler] Reference
Sweat burst out from her forehead, drenching the hair at the back of her neck. From Wordnik.com. [The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 9] Reference
Florida's sunshine is fine, but Arizona's seems tactile, drenching the diamond. From Wordnik.com. [Reunion In The Desert] Reference
There's a spark of gratitude in him that the drenching of blood hasn't put out. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
He made no comment on her riding skirt which she held up away from the drenching dew. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
After all his pains, the only thing which he at last secured was a thorough drenching. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story] Reference
A mist, of sorts, that sprinkled down, not drenching but rather soaking the air surrounding. From Wordnik.com. [Where's the show?] Reference
The effect of the drenching rain would soon be gone and the fire would secure great headway. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference
I imagine the sleek wetness of his dark hair — nearly black from the drenching it's received. From Wordnik.com. [Adrift] Reference
The drenching rain would have precluded the possibility of sleep without this additional cause. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
He worked Sunday nights, drenching himself in ranch dressing as he prepared the next day's food. From Wordnik.com. [Entrepreneur turns student lunches into a business with Schoolhouse Grill] Reference
Before we knew it, hard, driving rain poured out of the sky, drenching me and all my possessions. From Wordnik.com. [Jeffrey Hull, Ph.D.: 6 Ways to Do Nothing in a Wired World] Reference
And Max did so, drenching poor dancing Bandy-legs from head to foot with the contents of the pail. From Wordnik.com. [With Trapper Jim in the North Woods] Reference
Wave after wave advanced, breaking over them in clouds, taking their breath away and drenching them. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference
They were eager to bring the matter to a head, and the waiting in drenching rain wore on their patience. From Wordnik.com. [Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs] Reference
At sun-down the wind suddenly rose to half a gale, with a cross lumpy sea and drenching showers of rain. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference
When menstruation finally ebbs hot flashes begin, waking women with drenching sweats oozing from every pore. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Edlund, M.D.: Sex, Sleep and Rest: Men Vs. Women] Reference
What had begun as a light shower turned quickly into a drenching downpour, and I was grateful for the umbrella. From Wordnik.com. [Sanctuary] Reference
Yeah, I'm sure a little thing called "crazy fangirls kidnapping your dog and drenching your house with ketchup". From Wordnik.com. [Dlisted - Be Very Afraid] Reference
That drenching rain seemed to affect all who were exposed to it and resulted in severe colds in every instance. From Wordnik.com. [A Soldier in the Philippines] Reference
Thunder echoes through the rocky caves with incessant reverberations, and rain settles down in a drenching flood. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference
The nozzle swung around, and the stream came full force over Christopher Cutler Piper, drenching him in an instant. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Boys on the Coast] Reference
We stopped for tiffin the first day just in time to escape a drenching, and did not get away again until six o'clock. From Wordnik.com. [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference
After injuring the railroad all that lay in its power, the division returned to camp, having enjoyed a drenching rain. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Eighty-sixth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, during its term of service] Reference
The rain was like a mist, and was not only drenching me to the skin, but it was rendering it difficult to see more than. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
Tremor after tremor passed over him, but they were not from the chill of the night nor from the drenching of the water. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Phantom] Reference
Not until the sharp report of thunder followed by a drenching rain drove the revellers to shelter did the festivities end. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Phantom] Reference
She waited and she watched, day and night, in drenching storms and steaming daylight, becoming a part of the forest routine. From Wordnik.com. [From Savage to Savvy: A New Understanding of Chimps] Reference
The water dashed so high and wildly up the sand that he was obliged to keep well up beside the houses to escape a drenching. From Wordnik.com. [Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught] Reference
Dr. Skinner was on horseback and I can see him now in memory, as he was in that drenching rain, wet to the skin, as all were. From Wordnik.com. [The Twenty-fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion History, Reminiscences, Description of Battle of Irish Bend, Carrying of Pay Roll, Roster] Reference
Both dashed off at a rapid pace, through a drenching storm, with such a pall-like darkness that they could not see each other. From Wordnik.com. [Clotelle; or, the Colored Heroine, a tale of the Southern States; or, the President's Daughter] Reference
Similarly, turning compost can be an impossible, sweat-drenching, back-wrenching chore, or it can be relatively quick and easy. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
On that drenching Saturday, when you were working like a galley slave without raising or seeing a fish on the Lower Floors water. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
He had passed through safely enough before, and he resolved to attempt the crossing now, counting on nothing worse than a drenching. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892] Reference
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