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drenchings

drenchings is the plural of drenching.

Meaning of drenching

Noun

drenching (plural drenchings)

  1. The act by which something is drenched; a soaking.
    • […] and it contains a very good selection of shrubs and herbaceous plants, which, having good soil and plentiful drenchings of water from a garden-engine all the summer, thrive to admiration.1859, Shirley Hibberd, The Town Garden, page 53
  2. The administering of a medicinal draught to an animal.
    • Horses,^([sic]) get all sorts of medicines, wormings, drenchings, and their food may well have been produced chemically […]2015, Elen Sentier, Gardening with the Moon & Stars

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Questions about drenchings

What is drenchings the plural of?
Drenchings is the plural of drenching.

Words near drenchings in the dictionary

  1. drenches
  2. drenchest
  3. drencheth
  4. drenching
  5. drenchingly
  6. drenchings
  7. drencht
  8. dreng
  9. drengage
  10. drengages
  11. drenge

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