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drenched to the skin

To be completely soaked with water—usually rain—through one's clothes. Come in out of that rain! Oh, you're drenched to the skin, you'll catch cold if you aren't careful!
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drench in

To cover or saturate with something (typically a liquid). A noun or pronoun can be used between "drench" and "in." You can always count on Bill to drench his pancakes in syrup.
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drench someone or something in something

 and drench someone or something with something
to soak someone or something in something. A sudden summer shower drenched them in sheets of rain. My raincoat was drenched with droplets from the foggy night air.
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It is permitted to leave drencher systems out of the design of refuge floors if the building design can demonstrate an equivalent fire safety level through compliance with Hong Kong's prescriptive code.
In this way, it is possible to study the movement of heat and smoke spreading out of building compartment on fire to the refuge level (both with and without drencher retardation).
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