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# drenching

«drenching» in Mova's school dictionary: **a heavy soaking with water; very wet** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun or adjective (drench, drenches, drenched, drenching)

### meaning for a pupil

a heavy soaking with water; very wet [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drenching/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories a long, cold soaking by rain or sea, after which a person is warmed by a fire

### examples

- The drenching rain flooded the road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drenching/#x1)
- After his drenching he sat by the fire to get warm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drenching/#x2)
- We walked home in the drenching storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drenching/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «drenching» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drenching/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.