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fordrench

fordrench verb: to make drunk; intoxicate.

Verb

fordrench (third-person singular simple present fordrenches, present participle fordrenching, simple past and past participle fordrenched)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To make drunk; intoxicate.
  2. (ambitransitive, obsolete) To drown.

Forms of fordrench

third-person singular presentfordrenches
present participlefordrenching
past participlefordrenched
pastfordrenched

Origin of fordrench

From Middle English fordrenchen, from Old English fordrenċan (“to make drunk, intoxicate”), equivalent to for- + drench. Cognate with Middle Low German vordrenken.

Questions about fordrench

What does fordrench mean?
Fordrench means to make drunk; intoxicate.
What part of speech is fordrench?
Fordrench is a verb.
What is the past tense of fordrench?
The past tense of fordrench is fordrenched.

Words near fordrench in the dictionary

  1. Fordow
  2. fordread
  3. fordreaded
  4. fordreading
  5. fordreads
  6. fordrench
  7. fordrenched
  8. fordrenches
  9. fordrenching
  10. fordried
  11. fordries

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