drenching
Getting completely soaked
Drenching is a thorough soaking—the kind that leaves something completely wet.
Rain can give you a drenching, or you can give plants a drenching with the hose.
The word implies saturation, not just dampness: We got a drenching walking back from the car.
In veterinary contexts, a drenching is the forced administration of liquid medicine to an animal.
Thoroughly wet throughout
- saturatedThoroughly soaked through
- soddenSaturated with liquid
- waterloggedSaturated with liquid
- soppingThoroughly wet through
dripping · doused · dampened · soaking wet · wringing wet · awash · swamped · inundated
Intense precipitation event
- delugeSevere overflow of water
- cloudburstSudden heavy localized rainfall
- torrentViolent rushing flow
- monsoonSeasonal tropical wind pattern
thunderstorm · soaking rain · squall · rainfall · showers · precipitation · tempest · rainstorm
soaked
Thoroughly wet throughout
- saturatedThoroughly soaked through
- soddenSaturated with liquid
- waterloggedSaturated with liquid
sopping · dripping · doused · dampened · soaking wet · wringing wet · awash · swamped · inundated · flooded
downpour
Intense precipitation event
- delugeSevere overflow of water
- cloudburstSudden heavy localized rainfall
- torrentViolent rushing flow
monsoon · thunderstorm · soaking rain · squall · rainfall · showers · precipitation · tempest · rainstorm · flood
- downpoursdownpour, torrential rain, heavy rain, pouring rain, cloudburst
- Too Muchoverflowing, spilling, flooding, stuffing, cramming
- getting wetrain, shower, splash, soaking, spray
- water actionswatering, soaking, flooding, spraying, dripping
- wateringwatering can, sprinkler, hose, drip irrigation, soaking
- heavy precipitationdownpour, deluge, torrent, cloudburst, monsoon
drenchingdrying
Moisture removal process
dehydrating · desiccating · evaporating · parching · wringing out
drenchingsprinkling
Small scattered amount
misting · dampening · moistening · drizzling · spritzing