Drench vs Dunk - What's the difference?
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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.
To submerge briefly in a liquid.
To set down carelessly.
(ambitransitive, basketball) To put the ball directly downward through the hoop while grabbing onto the rim with power.
The act of dunking, particularly in basketball.
Drench is a related term of dunk.
As verbs the difference between drench and dunk
is that drench is to soak, to make very wet while dunk is .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 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)
dunk
English
Verb
(en verb)- I like to dunk my donut in my coffee.
- Parents shouldn't just dunk their kids in front of the TV.
- The center spun quickly and dunked the ball with authority.
Noun
(en noun)- The point guard threaded a pass with pinpoint precision to the power forward for an easy dunk.