Deluge vs Drench - What's the difference?
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A great flood or rain.
An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction.
* Milton
* Lowell
(Military engineering) A damage control system on navy warships which is activated by excessive temperature within the Vertical Launching System.
* NAVEDTRA 14324A
To flood with water.
To overwhelm.
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
* Shakespeare
To soak, to make very wet.
* Dryden
To cause to drink; especially, to dose (e.g. a horse) with medicine by force.
(obsolete, UK) A military vassal, mentioned in the Domesday Book.
As nouns the difference between deluge and drench
is that deluge is a great flood or rain while drench is a draught administered to an animal.As verbs the difference between deluge and drench
is that deluge is to flood with water while drench is to soak, to make very wet.As a proper noun Deluge
is the Biblical flood during the time of Noah.deluge
English
Noun
(en noun)- The deluge continued for hours, drenching the land and slowing traffic to a halt.
- The rock concert was a deluge of sound.
- A fiery deluge fed / With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.
- The little bird sits at his door in the sun, / Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, / And lets his illumined being o'errun / With the deluge of summer it receives.
- In the event of a restrained firing or canister overtemperature condition, the deluge system sprays cooling water within the canister until the overtemperature condition no longer exists.
Verb
- After the announcement, they were deluged with requests for more information.
References
* 1996, T.F. Hoad, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Etymology , Oxford University Press, ISBN 0192830988See also
* inundate ----drench
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) drenchen, from (etyl) . More at drink.Noun
(es)- A drench of wine.
- Give my roan horse a drench .
Verb
- Now dam the ditches and the floods restrain; / Their moisture has already drenched the plain.
Etymology 2
Anglo-Saxon dreng warrior, soldier, akin to Icelandic drengr.Noun
(es)- (Burrill)