Слово "drench". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

It was barely two days since the last cavalcade of that nature, that of the Flemish ambassadors charged with concluding the marriage between the dauphin and Marguerite of Flanders, had made its entry into Paris, to the great annoyance of M. le Cardinal de Bourbon, who, for the sake of pleasing the king, had been obliged to assume an amiable mien towards this whole rustic rabble of Flemish burgomasters, and to regale them at his Hôtel de Bourbon, with a very “pretty morality, allegorical satire, and farce,” while a driving rain drenched the magnificent tapestries at his door.

He thought they must surely be drowned and turned his head to see. But there were the two somber figures still following him, though their black sacks were drenched and dripping with water.

Montag stood with the flame-thrower in his limp hands, great islands of perspiration drenching his armpits, his face smeared with soot.

He was in the middle of a great empty plain, a flat desert drenched with sunlight, across which all sounds came to him out of immense distances.

Sixty four minutes had passed when an incredulous and slightly air sick Robert Langdon stepped down the gangplank onto the sun drenched runway.

He was drenched to the skin, but he held his face up and let the water hit his eyelids, laughing.