DRENCHED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does drenched mean? 

• DRENCHED (adjective)
  The adjective DRENCHED has 1 sense:

1. abundantly covered or supplied with; often used in combination

  Familiarity information: DRENCHED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRENCHED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Abundantly covered or supplied with; often used in combination

Synonyms:

drenched; drenched in

Context example:

moon-drenched meadows

Similar:

covered (overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form)

 Context examples 

He heard mutters of amazement at the ghastly damage wrought, and was drenched with his own blood.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

While the rain descends so, must I lay my head on the cold, drenched ground?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The whole bed would have been drenched to a scarlet with the blood which the girl must have lost to leave such a pallor as she had before the transfusion.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I did not dare return to the apartment which I inhabited, but felt impelled to hurry on, although drenched by the rain which poured from a black and comfortless sky.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The other three took complete headers, and came up again drenched and bubbling.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

My clothes were all sodden with dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded thumb.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Next he attempted the tiny front porch, until a howling southeaster drenched the wheel a night-long.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I was prepared for the hot rain of tears; only I wanted them to be shed on my breast: now a senseless floor has received them, or your drenched handkerchief.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I was drenched and terrified, and fell instantly back into my old position, whereupon the coracle seemed to find her head again and led me as softly as before among the billows.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De Quincey’s description of his dreams and sensations, he had drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the same effects.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)