drenched in
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4.6
- idiom
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- Another single step whisked them around to Calcutta, which was also hot and drenched in monsoon rains.
- drenched in sweat
- drenched in blood
- drenched in light
And but everything is just drenched in spices and pepper.
- And but everything is just drenched in spices and pepper.
- Jesus, calm yourself, you look like a cat that was drenched in the Arctic Ocean.
- Fast forward a week from then, I wake up in the middle of the night and I'm just drenched in sweat.
- The pair was gruesomely drenched in blood, yet both had their good looking faces, oddly preserved like masks.
- I had woke up one morning and one of my drawers, specifically my crop top drawer was covered, not covered, drenched in pee.
Examples
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Fast forward a week from then, I wake up in the middle of the night and I'm just drenched in sweat.
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In the close-up, she is lurid, ruined, drenched in red light.
Fiction book (2002) -
I wake up in the middle of the night drenched in sweat.
Fiction book (2002) -
Fire from the sun rolled through the aircraft, and he was drenched in sweat.
Fiction book (1990) -
One thing Romy did know was that her pictures would be drenched in color.
Fiction book (1997) -
His bags of popcorn were drenched in this heavenly mix of oil and butter.
Blog text (11) -
Berkeley in April should be either crisp and breezy or drenched in mist.
Fiction book (1997) -
A canvas drenched in sunset hues, colors radiating like flame.
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Sitting there in the warm sunshine and drenched in river-sweet breezes, Rokey surrendered.
Fiction book (1999) -
After the intense workout, I was drenched in sweat and needed to cool off.
Synonyms
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4.1
Filled with a large amount of something
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6.0
Very wet and heavy with water
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3.4
Completely soaked with liquid so it cannot absorb any more
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3.2
Completely wet, with water going through your clothes and reaching your skin
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3.9
Completely wet, for example from rain or sweat
Completely covered by something so it is hidden or overwhelmed
A place covered with water after heavy rain or a flood
Having a layer of something on its surface, like fur or seasoning
Antonyms
How Filled
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'completely covered or filled with X' is directly derivable from combining 'drenched' (thoroughly soaked) with the preposition 'in' (indicating being immersed in or covered by). This compositional and productive pattern (e.g. 'drenched in sweat', 'drenched in mud' or metaphorically 'drenched in grief') is cross-linguistically common and would be clear to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
Drenched in comes from imagining something soaked in water, like clothes left out in heavy rain. The word drenched means soaked and in shows what covers it, so when we say a voice is drenched in emotion or a city drenched in color, we mean it is 'completely covered' or 'full of' that quality.