Trenches vs Drenches - What's the difference?
trenches | drenches |
(plural noun) The front line of any field of endeavor, as the line of scrimmage in American football, patrol duty for a policeman.
(trench)
(drench)
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 trenches and drenches
is that trenches is third-person singular of trench while drenches is third-person singular of drench.As a noun trenches
is plural of lang=en.trenches
English
Noun
(head)Verb
(head)drenches
English
Verb
(head)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)