LekhoriLekhoripresent participle and gerund of drench
That causes one to become extremely wet.
We'll be experiencing drenching rain all weekend.
The act by which something is drenched; a soaking.
[…] and it contains a very good selection of shrubs and herbaceous plants, which, having good soil and plentiful drenchings of water from a garden-engine all the summer, thrive to admiration.
The administering of a medicinal draught to an animal.
Horses,^([sic]) get all sorts of medicines, wormings, drenchings, and their food may well have been produced chemically […]
From Middle English drenchyng, drenchynge, drenchende, from Old English drenċende, from Proto-Germanic *drankijandz, present participle of *drankijaną (“to drench”), equivalent to drench + -ing.
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