dhrink

Verb

drink (third-person singular simple present drinks, present participle drinking, simple past drank or (Southern US) drunk or (nonstandard) drinked, past participle drunk or (chiefly archaic) drunken or (dialectal) drank or (all, nonstandard, archaic or obsolete) drinked or drinken or dranken)

1. (ambitransitive) To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.
   • He drank the water I gave him.

   Synonyms:

   gulp, imbibe, quaff, sip

2. (metonymically, transitive) To consume the liquid contained within (a bottle, glass, etc.).
   • Jack drank the whole bottle by himself.
3. (intransitive) To consume alcoholic beverages.
   • You've been drinking, haven't you?

   Synonyms:

   drink alcohol, booze, hit the bottle, hit the sauce

4. (transitive) To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
   • Let the purple violets drink the stream.1697, Virgil, “The Fourth Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
5. (transitive) To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.
   • My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words / Of that tongue's utterance.c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
6. (archaic, transitive) To toast (someone or something) with a drink, honour; to wish well (see drink to), especially
   • Drink to lofty hopes that cool —
     Visions of a perfect State : Drink we, last, the public fool,
     Frantic love and frantic hate.1842, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Vision of Sin”, in The Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., published 1884, →OCLC, part iv, page 131

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