What's the difference between drench and potion?

Drench


Definition:

  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To steep in moisture; to wet thoroughly; to soak; to saturate with water or other liquid; to immerse.
  • (v. t.) A drink; a draught; specifically, a potion of medicine poured or forced down the throat; also, a potion that causes purging.
  • (n.) A military vassal mentioned in Domesday Book.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Back then, the entire city felt drenched in sensuality, and so did my home.
  • (2) Since it is only slightly soluble in water, it is processed in a suspension dosage form as a drench.
  • (3) Other aspects of the recommended program including reduction of drenching frequency and the use of alternative management strategies were not considered as important by farmers.
  • (4) Thereafter 2 groups each of sheep and goats were infested artificially with these parasites, and one group of each animal species was drenched with albendazole at 4.75 mg kg-1 in a second trial.
  • (5) To butcher TS Eliot: I have seen the mercury of my thermometer flicker, And I have seen the eternal footman hold my sheets drenched in sweat at 3am, and snicker, And in short, I was too hot.
  • (6) About 10,000 people attended a rain-drenched rally in Sydney addressed by the Labor deputy leader, Tanya Plibersek.
  • (7) "It's synaesthetic to some extent," decides Alex, of his neon-drenched sleeve designs.
  • (8) A good repeatability was generally also noticed for each animal individually; the bioavailability of the drug did not seem to be different from that obtained after administration of albendazole as an oral drench.
  • (9) Green prayer-mats were beds, tables were used as stretchers, while those already treated – blood drenching their shirts – sprawled against the walls at the side.
  • (10) Flagstaff in Arizona had 11 inches of snow early Sunday, while metro Phoenix and other parts of central Arizona were drenched with several inches of rain, causing the cancellation of sporting events and parades.
  • (11) The killing fields of Gallipoli and the Somme had been drenched in blood for a "noble cause", declared Michael Gove.
  • (12) Plus, the sauce-drenched chicken felt like a waste of free-range hen.
  • (13) For Dieudonne's act is drenched in anti-Jewish racism.
  • (14) Rome in The Great Beauty Released 2013, directed by Paolo Sorrentino Facebook Twitter Pinterest I can’t think of any city so drenched with infatuated love, and yet also a kind of disillusion and disenchantment, as the Rome of Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty .
  • (15) Fenbendazole may be administered as a drench or as medicated feed.
  • (16) At 4, 8, 16 and 24 h after drenching the sheep were killed and the flukes removed, washed and rapidly frozen in liquid nitrogen.
  • (17) The agent's fragility in water led hospital staff in Syria to uses hoses to drench rooms where they received victims after chemical attacks.
  • (18) Anthelmintic efficacy of levamisole against induced infections with 7- and 21-day-old Haemonchus contortus, Ostertagia circumcincta, Trichostrongylus axei, and T colubriformis was evaluated as an oral drench in goats.
  • (19) In a field study, S. carpocapsae (5 x 10(6) and 2 x 10(6) drench, 2 x 10(6) infective juvenile infection) was applied to active fire ant mounds in 3.8-liter suspensions.
  • (20) In the third, Mayweather switched from speed to power, doing as he pleased, and knocking back that distinctive red mop, now drenched in the sweat of anxiety and effort.

Potion


Definition:

  • (n.) A draught; a dose; usually, a draught or dose of a liquid medicine.
  • (v. t.) To drug.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) From the beginning of time, man has had the instinct to pour things in wounds to kill microorganisms and enhance healing, and..... "wounds are still lathered, bathed, and sprayed with various notions, potions, and lotions".
  • (2) Dynamics of nonachlazine, a new anti-anginal agent, distribution in organs following its single and repeated introduction in the form of a potion and aqueous solution was studied in tests with albino rats.
  • (3) The peculiar thing about the opera is that the back story – war, slayings, the murder of the Irish princess Isolde's betrothed by the Cornish knight Tristan, her determination to kill the latter, her failure to do so, the way she healed Tristan's wounds and kept his identity secret – is more interesting than the story itself, which revolves around the pair not quite being able to make love despite drinking a love potion (substituted by Isolde's lady-in-waiting Brangäne for the poison with which Isolde intended to kill both Tristan and herself as they journeyed to Cornwall, where she was to marry boring old King Marke).
  • (4) Despite encouraging results, the author concludes that, at present, hypertonic saline cannot be considered a truly "magic potion" for resuscitation of the trauma patient.
  • (5) By transfecting murine type I IL-1R cDNA into a human Jurkat cell line, structural and functional potion required for the IL-1 signal transduction is determined.
  • (6) It is not unusual to have to treat a sick Zulu 1st for the effects of a witchdoctor's potions and only subsequently for the original complaint.
  • (7) We studied one type of treatment carried out in groups of about 10 to 12 'patients', where the healer makes a magical diagnosis and provides a potion, usually ayahuasca (active hallucinogenic agent: harmine) which is drunk by the witch doctor, his assistant and the patients.
  • (8) He also stated that servers could charge players for entry, and for personalisation items like cool hats and silly pets, but could not charge for items that would affect gameplay, such as powerful swords or potions.
  • (9) Two electrodes were sown each to the serosal surface of the interposed segment of the jejunum, duodenum, and distal potion of the jejunum, respectively.
  • (10) To gain more insight into this problem, it is proposed that chemical analyses and toxicological studies be carried out on each ingredient individually, then on combinations of ingredients contained in these Voodoo potions.
  • (11) Quackery has for centuries used aphrodisiacs to exploit vulnerable victims, 30% of whom, through the power of suggestion, have achieved sexual success from potions, powders and genital pomades.
  • (12) He does not swear much in the early rounds of any tournament but gives full vent to his passion when it matters, as if he has been building it up on purpose, like a magic potion.
  • (13) But, being deficient in magic potion, we have precious little chance of stopping it.
  • (14) However, referendums are by no means a magical potion.
  • (15) Potions from plants, now known to contain scopolamine, were used in antiquity and the middle ages.
  • (16) Greedy relatives will press the potion on their parents, eager for the inheritance or just to be rid of the muddles and puddles of the decrepit.
  • (17) Pokestops provide the resources of the game: find one, tap it, and you get items like pokeballs, potions and revives.
  • (18) Yet many proprietary potions did not actually terminate pregnancies.
  • (19) Patients were often cured by potions or ointments containing mercury if used from the onset of symptoms.
  • (20) Herbal potions are also used by the Igbo traditional midwife to induce labor and to treat ailments such as generalized bodily edema.