drench

Short definition from Wiktionary

Noun

1. 1
   A dose or draught of liquid medicine (especially one causing sleepiness) taken by a person; specifically, a (large) dose, or one forced or poured down the throat.
2. 2
   A dose or draught of liquid medicine administered to an animal.
3. 3
   An act of making someone or something completely wet; a soak or soaking, a wetting.
4. 4
   An amount of water or some other liquid that will make someone or something completely wet.

Verb

1. 1
   To cause (someone) to drink; to provide (someone) with a drink.
2. 2
   To cause (someone) to drink; to provide (someone) with a drink: To administer a dose or draught of liquid medicine to (an animal), often by force.
3. 3
   To make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it; to saturate, to soak; also (archaic), to make (someone or something) completely wet by immersing in water or some other liquid; to soak, to steep.
4. 4
   To drown (someone).
5. 5
   To overwhelm (someone); to drown, to engulf.
6. 6
   To be drowned; also, to be immersed in water.