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noun the act of making something completely wet
verb drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged
verb force to drink
originFrom Middle English drenchyng, drenchynge, drenchende, from Old English drenċende, from Proto-Germanic *drankijandz, present participle of *drankijaną (“to drench”), equivalent to drench + -ing.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0