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bedrinking

bedrinking is the present participle and gerund of bedrink.

Meaning of bedrink

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
  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

Questions about bedrinking

What is bedrinking the present participle and gerund of?
Bedrinking is the present participle and gerund of bedrink.

Words near bedrinking in the dictionary

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

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