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Drench vs Besprinkle - What's the difference?

drench | besprinkle |

As verbs the difference between drench and besprinkle

is that drench is to soak, to make very wet while besprinkle is (archaic) to sprinkle with.

As a noun drench

is a draught administered to an animal or drench can be (obsolete|uk) a military vassal, mentioned in the domesday book.

drench

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) drenchen, from (etyl) . More at drink.

Noun

(es)
  • A draught administered to an animal.
  • (obsolete) A drink; a draught; specifically, a potion of medicine poured or forced down the throat; also, a potion that causes purging.
  • * Dryden
    • A drench of wine.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Give my roan horse a drench .

    Verb

  • To soak, to make very wet.
  • * Dryden
    • Now dam the ditches and the floods restrain; / Their moisture has already drenched the plain.
  • To cause to drink; especially, to dose (e.g. a horse) with medicine by force.
    • Related terms
    * drenched

    Etymology 2

    Anglo-Saxon dreng warrior, soldier, akin to Icelandic drengr.

    Noun

    (es)
  • (obsolete, UK) A military vassal, mentioned in the Domesday Book.
    • (Burrill)

    besprinkle

    English

    Verb

    (besprinkl)
  • (archaic) to sprinkle with
  • *{{quote-book, year=1904, author=John Henry Freese, Alfred John Church, and William Jackson Brodribb, title=Roman History, Books I-III, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=At this crisis the Sabine women, from the outrage on whom the war had arisen, with dishevelled hair and torn garments, the timidity natural to women being overcome by the sense of their calamities, were emboldened to fling themselves into the midst of the flying weapons, and, rushing across, to part the incensed combatants and assuage their wrath: imploring their fathers on the one hand and their husbands on the other, as fathers-in-law and sons-in-law, not to besprinkle themselves with impious blood, nor to fix the stain of murder on their offspring, the one side on their grandchildren, the other on their children. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1871, author=Marc Monnier, title=The Wonders of Pompeii, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=We could still recognize the troughs that served for the manipulation of the bread, and the oven, the arch of which is intact, with the cavity that retained the ashes, the besprinkle the crust and make it shiny, and, finally, the triple-flued pipe that carried off the smoke--an excellent system revealed by the Pompeian excavations and successfully imitated since then. }}