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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wet thoroughly |
| Synonyms: | deluge, dip, douse, drown, duck, dunk, flood, imbrue, immerse, impregnate, inundate, pour, saturate, seethe, soak, sodden, sop, souse, steep, submerge, teem |
| Antonyms: | dry, parch |
| Main Entry: | dip |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | put into liquid |
| Synonyms: | baptize, bathe, douse, drench, duck, dunk, immerse, irrigate, lave, lower, moisten, pitch, plunge, rinse, slop, slosh, soak, souse, splash, steep, submerge, submerse, wash, water, wet |
| Main Entry: | draft |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | drink of beverage |
| Synonyms: | drag*, drain, drench, glass, peg, quaff, swallow, swig, swill |
| Notes: | wind moves horizontally, while a draft moves vertically |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | drown |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | submerge in liquid; submerge and die |
| Synonyms: | asphyxiate, deluge, dip, douse, drench, engulf, flood, go down, go under, immerse, inundate, knock over, obliterate, overcome, overflow, overpower, overwhelm, plunge, prostrate, sink, soak, sop, souse, stifle, suffocate, swamp, whelm, wipe out |
| Antonyms: | float, rescue, save |
| Main Entry: | flush |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | inundate with liquid |
| Synonyms: | cleanse, douche, drench, eject, expel, flood, hose, rinse, swab, wash |
| Main Entry: | immerse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | submerge in liquid |
| Synonyms: | asperse, baptize, bathe, bury, christen, dip, douse, drench, drown, duck, dunk, merge, plunge, saturate, sink, slop, soak, souse, sprinkle, steep, submerse |
| Notes: | immerse means to thrust into or engross fully; submerge means sink below the surface or put under water |
| Antonyms: | dry, retrieve |
| Main Entry: | impregnate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | infuse, fill; make pregnant |
| Synonyms: | charge, conceive, drench, fecundate, fertilize, imbrue, implant, inoculate, inseminate, leaven, overflow, percolate, permeate, pervade, procreate, produce, reproduce, saturate, seethe, soak, sodden, souse, steep, suffuse, transfuse |
| Antonyms: | deplete, take out |
| Main Entry: | moisten |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make wet, damp |
| Synonyms: | bathe, bedew, dampen, dip, drench, humidify, lick, mist, moisturize, rain on, rinse, saturate, shower, soak, sog, sop, splash, splatter, spray, sprinkle, squirt, steam, steep, wash, water, water down, waterlog, wet |
| Antonyms: | dry |
| Main Entry: | permeate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | filter, spread throughout |
| Synonyms: | charge, diffuse, drench, fill, go through, imbue, impregnate, infiltrate, infuse, ingrain, interfuse, invade, pass through, penetrate, percolate, pervade, pierce, saturate, seep, soak, stab, stalk, steep, suffuse, transfuse |
| Notes: | the difference between permeate and pervade is that the former is affecting a surface, the latter an area; a characteristic of penetrate is that it is effected upon a solid substance |
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