different between drenched vs bedoven

English

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

drenched (comparative more drenched, superlative most drenched)

1. Completely wet; sodden

   Synonyms: plashy, saturated, soaked; see also Thesaurus:wet

Translations

Verb

drenched

1. simple past tense and past participle of drench

English

Alternative forms

• bedove

Etymology

From Middle English bedoven, from Old English bedofen, past particle of Old English bed?fan (“to bedive, to put under, immerse, submerge, drown”), equivalent to be- +? dive. Cognate with Middle Low German bedöven (“immersed”).

Adjective

bedoven (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) drenched.
   • Life of Saint Christina Mirabilis of Saint Trudons

     Alle hir body […] semyd be dowen in blood. [All her body seemed bedoven in blood.]

   • A Scotch Winter Evening in 1512

     The wind made wave the red weed on the dike. Bedoven in dank deep was every sike.
2. (obsolete) drowned.

Dutch

Etymology

Past participle of obsolete beduiven.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??do?.v?(n)/
• Hyphenation: be?do?ven
• Rhymes: -o?v?n

Adjective

bedoven (not comparable)

1. (archaic, dialectal) submerged, under water (sometimes also used of other fluids)
2. (obsolete) immersed

Inflection