Drench vs. Shower — What's the Difference?

To wet through and through; soak.

A shower is a place in which a person bathes under a spray of typically warm or hot water. Indoors, there is a drain in the floor.

To administer a large oral dose of liquid medicine to (an animal).

A brief fall of precipitation, such as rain, hail, or sleet.

To provide with something in great abundance; surfeit

A fall of a group of objects, especially from the sky

The act of wetting or becoming wet through and through.

An abundant flow; an outpouring

Something that drenches

A party held to honor and present gifts to someone

A large dose of liquid medicine, especially one administered to an animal by pouring down the throat.

A bath in which the water is sprayed on the bather in fine streams from a showerhead, usually secured overhead

A draught administered to an animal.

The stall or tub in which such a bath is taken.

(obsolete) A drink; a draught; specifically, a potion of medicine poured or forced down the throat; also, a potion that causes purging.

One that shows

To soak, to make very wet.

To throw or cause to fall in a shower

To cause to drink; especially, to dose (e.g. a horse) with medicine by force.

To throw or cause small things or pieces to fall over

To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physic.

To fall over or be thrown or projected at

To steep in moisture; to wet thoroughly; to soak; to saturate with water or other liquid; to immerse.

To give or bestow abundantly or liberally

A drink; a draught; specifically, a potion of medicine poured or forced down the throat; also, a potion that causes purging.

To give something in great abundance to

A military vassal mentioned in Domesday Book.

To wash oneself in a shower.

Drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged;

To fall or pour down in a shower.

Force to drink

To arrive or be given in abundance

Permeate or impregnate;

A brief fall of precipitation (spell of rain, or a similar fall of snow, sleet, or cascade).

Cover with liquid; pour liquid onto;

A device for bathing by which water is made to fall on the body from a height, either from a tank or by the action of a pump.

An instance of using of this device in order to bathe oneself.

A quantity of something that has characteristics of a rain shower.

A party associated with a significant event in a person's life, at which the person usually receives gifts.

A bridal shower.

A baby shower.

(juggling) A pattern where the juggler passes objects horizontally from one hand to the other around chest height, and upward over the juggler's head to return to the first hand.

(obsolete) A battle, an attack; conflict.

A shower of shit.

Used as an intensifying pluralizer or intensifier

One who shows.

An object or activity that is shown in a contest.

(slang) A man whose penis is close to its full (erect) size when flaccid, or the penis itself.

(followed by with) To spray with (a specified liquid).

To bathe using a shower.

To bestow liberally, to give or distribute in abundance.

(intransitive) To rain in a shower; to cascade down.

One who shows or exhibits.

That which shows; a mirror.

A fall or rain or hail of short duration; sometimes, but rarely, a like fall of snow.

That which resembles a shower in falling or passing through the air copiously and rapidly.

A copious supply bestowed.

To water with a shower; to t copiously with rain.

To bestow liberally; to destribute or scatter in undance; to rain.

To rain in showers; to fall, as in a hower or showers.

A plumbing fixture that sprays water over you;

Washing yourself in a shower; you stand upright under water sprayed from a nozzle;

A brief period of precipitation;

A sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc) likened to a rain shower;

Someone who organizes an exhibit for others to see

A party of friends assembled to present gifts (usually of a specified kind) to a person;

Expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns;

Spray or sprinkle with;

Take a shower; wash one's body in the shower;

Rain abundantly;

Provide abundantly with;