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bedrink

bedrink verb: to drink in; drink up; drink to the fullest.

Verb

bedrink (third-person singular simple present bedrinks, present participle bedrinking, simple past bedrank, past participle bedrunk or bedrunken)

  1. (ambitransitive, archaic) To drink in; drink up; drink to the fullest
    • [...] not far from Tophana — the place of cannons — and doth there foolishly, selfishly, and sottishly bedrink himself unroyally drunk with bottle after bottle of champagne, [...]1860, Walter Thornbury, Turkish life and character
    • "Thus the unsteady woman [bedrinks] intoxicates the firm and resolute man."1889, Solomon Caesar Malan, Original notes on the Book of Proverbs
  2. (archaic, reflexive) to get drunk
    • That "moreover it behooveth to scourge all such heretics as would have it that these herein-afore-mentioned swineherds had bedrunk themselves and did cunningly adduce this tale of witchery to the end that they might escape meet [...]"1899, University of Virginia, The Virginia spectator

Forms of bedrink

third-person singular presentbedrinks
present participlebedrinking
pastbedrank
past participlebedrunk
past participlebedrunken

Origin of bedrink

From Middle English *bedrinken, from Old English bedrincan (“to drink in, drink up, absorb”), from Proto-West Germanic *bidrinkan; conflated with Middle English bidrenchen (“to soak up, steep”) (attested in Middle English bidrenkt (“soaked, drenched”)), from Old English *bedrenċan (“to drench completely”), equivalent to be- + drink and be- + drench. Cognate with Dutch bedrinken (“to drink up, get drunk”), German betrinken (“to get drunk”).

Questions about bedrink

What does bedrink mean?
Bedrink means to drink in; drink up; drink to the fullest.
What part of speech is bedrink?
Bedrink is a verb.
What is the past tense of bedrink?
The past tense of bedrink is bedrank.

Words near bedrink in the dictionary

  1. bedriddenness
  2. bedridding
  3. bedrift
  4. bedright
  5. bedrights
  6. bedrink
  7. bedrinking
  8. bedrinks
  9. bedrip
  10. bedripped
  11. bedripping

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