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Oversupply vs Drench - What's the difference?

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Oversupply is a related term of drench.


As verbs the difference between oversupply and drench

is that oversupply is to supply more than is needed while drench is to soak, to make very wet.

As nouns the difference between oversupply and drench

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

oversupply

English

Verb

  • To supply more than is needed

    • Noun

    (oversupplies)
  • An excessive supply.
  • *2012 , (Jurek Martin), ‘A Singular President’, Literary Review , 401:
  • *:He does not like twisting arms, LBJ's forte, preferring the force of reason, a commodity not in over-supply in the nation's capital.

    • 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)