Soak vs Drench - What's the difference?
soak | drench |
(label) To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.
* Bible, (w) xxiv. 7
(label) To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation.
(label) To penetrate or permeate by saturation.
* Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
(label) To allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up )
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, chapter=4, title= To drink intemperately or gluttonously.
(label) To heat a metal before shaping it.
To hold a kiln at a particular temperature for a given period of time.
(label) To absorb; to drain.
An immersion in water etc.
* "After the climb, I had a nice long soak in a bath."
(slang, British) A drunkard.
(Australia) A low-lying depression that fills with water after rain.
* 1985 , (Peter Carey), Illywhacker , Faber & Faber 2003, p. 38:
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 verbs the difference between soak and drench
is that soak is to be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it while drench is to soak, to make very wet.As nouns the difference between soak and drench
is that soak is an immersion in water etc while drench is a draught administered to an animal.soak
English
Verb
(en verb)- Their land shall be soaked with blood.
- The rivulet beneath soaked its way obscurely through wreaths of snow.
F. E. Penny
Pulling the Strings, passage=The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.}}
Noun
(en noun)- I set off early to walk along the Melbourne Road where, one of the punters had told me, there was a soak with plenty of frogs in it.
Anagrams
* * * English ergative verbsdrench
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)