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drench

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English drenchen, from Old English dren?an, from Proto-Germanic *drankijan? (compare Dutch drenken ‘to get a drink’, German tränken ‘to water, give a drink’), causative of *drinkan? (to drink). More at drink.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d??nt?/
  • Rhymes: -?nt?

Noun

drench (plural drenches)

  1. A draught administered to an animal.
  2. (obsolete) A drink; a draught; specifically, a potion of medicine poured or forced down the throat; also, a potion that causes purging.
    • A drench of wine has with success been us'd,
      And through a horn the gen'rous juice infus'd,
      Which, timely taken, op'd his closing jaws,
      But, if too late, the patient's death did cause.
    • 1907, Mark Twain, Christian Science and the Book of Mrs. Eddy
      I took up the 'Christian Scientist' book and read half of it, then took a dipperful of drench and read the other half.
Translations

Verb

drench (third-person singular simple present drenches, present participle drenching, simple past and past participle drenched)

  1. To soak, to make very wet.
    • Now dam the ditches and the floods restrain; / Their moisture has already drenched the plain.
  2. To cause to drink; especially, to dose (e.g. a horse) with medicine by force.
Related terms
  • drenched (adjective)
  • drenching (noun)
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English dreng, from Old English dreng (warrior, soldier), from Proto-Germanic *drangijaz, cognate to Old Norse drengr.

Noun

drench (plural drenches)

  1. (obsolete, Britain) A military vassal, mentioned in the Domesday Book.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Burrill to this entry?)

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dwindle

English

Etymology

Frequentative form of dwine, from Middle English dwinen, from Old English dw?nan (to waste away), equivalent to dwine +? -le, akin to Old Norse dvena/dvína (Danish tvine (to pine away), Dutch verdwijnen (to disappear, dwindle).

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /?dw?n.d?l/
  • Rhymes: -?nd?l

Verb

dwindle (third-person singular simple present dwindles, present participle dwindling, simple past and past participle dwindled)

  1. (intransitive) To decrease, shrink, diminish, reduce in size or intensity.
    • 1802, T. Paynell (translator), Erasmus, The Complaint of Peace
      [E]very thing that was improving gradually degenerates and dwindles away to nothing, []
  2. (intransitive, figuratively) To fall away in quality; degenerate, sink.
    • 1766, Oliver Goldsmith, Vicar, III
      The flattery of his friends began to dwindle into simple approbation.
    • 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress
      The larger the empire, the more dwindles the mind of the citizen.
  3. (transitive) To lessen; to bring low.
    • Our drooping days are dwindled down to nought.
  4. To break up or disperse.

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  • windled

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