Word Meanings - BEDRENCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To drench; to saturate with moisture; to soak. Shak.

Related words: (words related to BEDRENCH)

• MOISTURE
  1. A moderate degree of wetness. Bacon. 2. That which moistens or makes damp or wet; exuding fluid; liquid in small quantity. All my body's moisture Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burning heat. Shak.
• MOISTURELESS
  Without moisture.
• SATURATE
  To satisfy the affinity of; to cause to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold; as, to saturate phosphorus with chlorine. (more info) 1. To cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked; to fill fully; to
• DRENCHER
  1. One who, or that which, west or steeps. 2. One who administers a drench.
• DRENCH
  1. To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physic. As "to fell," is "to make to fall," and "to lay," to make to lie." so "to drench," is "to make to drink."
• DRENCHE
  To drown. In the sea he drenched. Chaucer.
• SATURATED
  Having its affinity satisfied; combined with all it can hold; - - said of certain atoms, radicals, or compounds; thus, methane is a saturated compound. Contrasted with unsaturated. Note: A saturated compound may exchange certain ingredients for
• INDRENCH
  To overwhelm with water; to drench; to drown. Shak.
• SUPERSATURATE
  To add to beyond saturation; as, to supersaturate a solution.
• OVERMOISTURE
  Excess of moisture.
• UNDERSATURATED
  Not fully saturated; imperfectly saturated.
• HORSE-DRENCH
  1. A dose of physic for a horse. Shak. 2. The appliance by which the dose is administred.
• BEDRENCH
  To drench; to saturate with moisture; to soak. Shak.
• UNSATURATED
  Capable of taking up, or of uniting with, certain other elements or compounds, without the elimination of any side product; thus, aldehyde, ethylene, and ammonia are unsaturated. (more info) 1. Capable of absorbing or dissolving to a
• OVERSATURATE
  To saturate to excess.