drenching

From Middle English drenchyng, drenchynge, drenchende, from Old English drenċende, from Proto-Germanic *drankijandz, present participle of *drankijaną (“to drench”), equivalent to drench +‎ -ing.

drenching

1. present participle of drench

From Middle English drenchinge, equivalent to drench +‎ -ing.

drenching (plural drenchings)

1. The act by which something is drenched; a soaking.
   • 1859, Shirley Hibberd, The Town Garden, page 53:

     […] 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.

2. The administering of a medicinal draught to an animal.
   • 2015, Elen Sentier, Gardening with the Moon & Stars:

     Horses,^[sic] get all sorts of medicines, wormings, drenchings, and their food may well have been produced chemically […]