drench

Other forms of drench

past tense

drenched·

present participle

drenching·

third person

drenches·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about drench

What does drench mean?

drench means "drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in drench?

drench has 1 syllable: drench. In IPA it is /ˈdɹɛntʃ/.

What is another word for drench?

Close synonyms include swamp, imbrue, douse, dowse, soak. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is drench a common word?

drench is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.