Ge-drencan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-drencan

Add; I. to cause to drink, supply a person with drink :-- Wætre snytres gidrenceð hine Drihten aqua sapientiae potabit illum Dominus, Rtl. 46, 11. Gidrencde, 84, 33. I a. to supply an object with moisture, saturate :-- Gedrenctest inebriasti (terram), Bl. Gl. II. to plunge into a liquid, soak :-- Gedrengcet héd subjactum corium, Angl. viii. 451 (omitted in Wülck. Gl. 165, 6). III. to plunge, sink (trans.), drown :-- Of gedrenced sié in grund sǽes demergatur in profundum maris, Mt. L. 18, 6. (Goth, ga-draggkjan GREEK : O. H. Ger. ge-trenchen potare, ebriare, aquare.) ge-drencan