Downpour vs Drench - What's the difference?
downpour | drench | Related terms |
To pour down; rain heavily.
* 2002 , Patricia Koretchuk, Chasing the comet: a Scottish-Canadian life - Page 211 :
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.
Downpour is a related term of drench.
As nouns the difference between downpour and drench
is that downpour is a heavy rain while drench is a draught administered to an animal or drench can be (obsolete|uk) a military vassal, mentioned in the domesday book.As verbs the difference between downpour and drench
is that downpour is to pour down; rain heavily while drench is to soak, to make very wet.downpour
English
Synonyms
* cloudburst * deluge * rain * rainstorm * storm * wet * torrent * monsoon * inundationVerb
(en verb)- It started to downpour , so Billy and I made our way back to our house, with Scotty following—or so I thought.
Derived terms
* (l)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)