| Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (v. t.) To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physic. 2. (v. t.) To steep in moisture; to wet thoroughly; to soak; to saturate with water or other liquid; to immerse. 3. (n.) A drink; a draught; specifically, a potion of medicine poured or forced down the throat; also, a potion that causes purging. 4. (n.) A military vassal mentioned in Domesday Book. | Multi-Version Concordance Drench (4 Occurrences) Psalms 6:6 I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears. (WEB RSV NIV) Psalms 65:10 You drench its furrows. You level its ridges. You soften it with showers. You bless it with a crop. (WEB NIV) Isaiah 16:9 For this cause my sorrow for the vine of Sibmah will be like the weeping for Jazer: my eyes are dropping water on you, O Heshbon and Elealeh! For they are sounding the war-cry over your summer fruits and the getting in of your grain; (See NAS RSV NIV) Ezekiel 32:6 I will also water with your blood the land in which you swim, even to the mountains; and the watercourses shall be full of you. (See RSV NIV) |