What's the difference between drenched and soaked?

Drenched


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Drench

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.

Soaked


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Soak

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Living by the "Big River" as a child, Cash soaked up work songs, church music, and country & western from radio station WMPS in Memphis, or the broadcasts from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on Friday and Saturday evenings.
  • (2) Others, like eight-year-old Stan – who was playing football with his mates in a corner of the beer-soaked field, has only good memories of Wales.
  • (3) They shun cost-benefit analysis but soak up aid money, saying Haiti's state is incompetent and corrupt.
  • (4) Duodenal DM flow was estimated with the indigestible markers, Cr-mordanted cell wall, Yb-soaked whole crop oat silage, and Co-EDTA.
  • (5) Boxing Day sales shoppers were soaked as downpours continued across the country on Wednesday, and there were warnings that an Atlantic storm would bring more heavy rain at the weekend.
  • (6) But Nick Loening, owner of Ecoyoga in the Scottish Highlands, is evangelical about the benefits of a good soak and gently insistent that his guests make the most of the various bathing options at his retreat – regardless of the weather.
  • (7) Sceptics think Prokhorov will be one of half a dozen "approved" candidates used to soak up discontent with his soothing talk of inexorable change, while posing no real threat to Putin's supremacy.
  • (8) In this model, an endotoxin-soaked thread is implanted in the adventitia along the ventral side of the rat femoral artery.
  • (9) Aflatoxin content in grains increased considerably with the increase in duration of soaking.
  • (10) He's got a very, very good memory and he soaks it all up."
  • (11) Sponges soaked in distilled water were implanted as controls.
  • (12) They had soaked up his blood into the soles of their boots and stamped it around in footprints that anyone who cared to might examine.
  • (13) A sample is extracted with tetrahydrofuran containing an internal standard, by sonication or overnight soaking.
  • (14) A video, seen by Guardian Australia but which we have chosen not to publish, shows Omid standing in a clearing, soaked in a liquid believed to be accelerant.
  • (15) For the detection of anthrax bacillus, sterile swabs should be soaked in the fluid of the vesicles.
  • (16) Over the same period, employment in the private sector increased by 104,000, more than soaking up public sector job losses.
  • (17) The other structures were equilibrium experiments carried out by soaking crystals in substrate containing solution.
  • (18) There was no significant change in phytic acid content of beans after soaking at 25 degrees C for 22 hours.
  • (19) Central corneal thickness (CCT) measurements after instillation of H2O2 into the cul-de-sac and after wearing H2O2 soaked soft contact lenses (SLC) for 2 h using 60 ppm, 100 ppm and 300 ppm H2O2.
  • (20) Scoop half of the chillies into a blender jar, pour in half of the soaking liquid (or water) and blend to a smooth purée.