drenched

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++drenched /drentʃt/ adjective  1  WETcovered with a lot of a liquid 湿透的 Come on in – you’re drenched! 快进来，你都湿透了！drenched in/with I was drenched in sweat. 我浑身是汗。 chips drenched in vinegar 浸在醋里的炸薯条rain-drenched/sweat-drenched etc He changed out of his rain-drenched clothes. 他把被雨水淋透的衣服换了下来。► see thesaurus at wet2. drenched in/with light literary something that is drenched with light has a lot of light shining on it 沐浴在阳光[灯光]里的

Examples from the Corpus

drenched• The two and a half hour walk in the wind and rain left us drenched.• Within seconds the car is drenched.• We were getting drenched, and it made me smile.• Their main danger is that their entire home will become drenched and waterlogged.• And yet the place was drenched, as with water, so with a fearful smell of burning.• On his return he haughtily threw off his drenched clothes.• Steward needed three shots to escape his watery grave and had a drenched set of waterproofs to prove it.• Everyone got completely drenched when a huge wave hit the boat.drenched in/with• Music and dance, at their beginning and throughout most of their history, were drenched with content.• I was drenched in my own perspiration, my own odors.• To the outsider pentecostalism seems to be drenched in paradoxes and contradictions.• In the first piece these are drenched with red and black paint from the spray paint cans.• Rachel screamed and woke up, drenched with sweat, shaking, staring into space.• He was trembling and so drenched in sweat that his hair lay like streaks of black paint upon his forehead.• The warehouse walls blended into each other like a painting drenched with turpentine.• Positively drenched in white angels, swans and flowers, the cake is on a tall platform reached by mirrored stairs.

drenched adjectiveChinese  

a covered a of with liquid lot Corpus

drenched
drenched /drentʃt/ adjective
1. covered with a lot of a liquid:
    Come on in – you’re drenched!
    drenched in/with
    I was drenched in sweat.
    chips drenched in vinegar
    rain-drenched/sweat-drenched etc
    He changed out of his rain-drenched clothes.
2. drenched in/with light literary something that is drenched with light has a lot of light shining on it
     

THESAURUS

■ very wet
   ▪ soaked [not before noun] very wet all the way through – used especially about people and their clothes: It absolutely poured with rain and we got soaked. | His shirt was soaked with blood.
   ▪ drenched [not before noun] very wet – used about a person or area after a lot of rain or water has fallen on them: Everyone got drenched when a huge wave hit the boat. | The garden was completely drenched after the rain.
   ▪ saturated extremely wet, and unable to take in any more water or liquid: His bandage was saturated with blood. | The floods were the result of heavy rainfall on already saturated soil.
   ▪ waterlogged /ˈwɔːtəlɒɡd $ ˈwɒːtərlɒːɡd, ˈwɑː-, -lɑːɡd/ used about ground that has water on its surface because it is so wet that it cannot take in any more: The game was cancelled because the field was waterlogged.
   ▪ sodden British English very wet with water – used about clothes and the ground. Sodden is less common than soaked: The ground was still sodden. | He took off his sodden shirt.