Who knows what can I translate "drenching"?
In the following sentence, "drenching" would be a sopping person?

Here was a teacher demonstrating principles of surface tension by holding a glass of water upside down with only a slip of parchment between his rapt students and a drenching.

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Who knows what  can I translate "drenching"?
In the following sentence, "drenching" would be a sopping person?

Here was a teacher demonstrating principles of surface tension by holding a glass of water upside down with only a slip of parchment between his rapt students and a drenching.

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Yes, the students would be sopping wet were it not for the parchment. Of course, this is an exaggeration, because a glassful of water would not "drench" someone. Drenching or sopping wet (the usual expression) implies completely and utterly soaked.

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"A drenching" here basically translates to "getting wet". If the slip of parchment was to break the students would receive "a drenching" or "get wet".

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Idiom:     Soaked to the bone.

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