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drink

verb
/ˈdɹɪŋk/

Etymology

From Middle English drinken, from Old English drincan (“to drink, swallow up, engulf”), from Proto-West Germanic *drinkan, from Proto-Germanic *drinkaną (“to drink”), of uncertain origin; possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrenǵ- (“to draw into one's mouth, sip, gulp”), nasalised variant of *dʰreǵ- (“to draw, glide”). Cognates Cognate with Yola drink (“to drink”), North Frisian drank, drainke, drink, drinke (“to drink”), West Frisian drinke (“to drink”), Alemannic German trénge, trenhu, trinche, tringhien, trinke (“to drink”), Bavarian dringa, trinckn, trinkhn, trinkn (“to drink”), Cimbrian trinkan, trinkhan (“to drink”), Dutch and Low German drinken (“to drink”), German and Mòcheno trinken (“to drink”), Luxembourgish drénken (“to drink”), Yiddish טרינקען (trinken, “to drink”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål drikke (“to drink”), Elfdalian drikka (“to drink”), Faroese and Icelandic drekka (“to drink”), Jutish drenk (“to drink”), Norwegian Nynorsk drikka, drikke (“to drink”), Swedish dricka (“to drink”), Gothic 𐌳𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌺𐌰𐌽 (drigkan, “to drink”), Vandalic drincan (“to drink”), French trinquer (“to booze, drink alcohol”), Italian trincare (“to knock back (a drink)”), Spanish trincar (“to get drunk”).

  1. derived from *dʰrenǵ-✻ — “to draw into one's mouth, sip, gulp”
  2. inherited from *drinkaną✻ — “to drink”
  3. inherited from *drinkan✻
  4. inherited from drincan — “to drink, swallow up, engulf”
  5. inherited from drinken

Definitions

  1. To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.

    • He drank the water I gave him.
    • You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.
    • […] There liues ſhee with the bleſſed Gods in bliſſe: / There drinks the Nectar with Ambroſia mixt […]

  2. To consume the liquid contained within (a bottle, glass, etc.).

    • Jack drank the whole bottle by himself.

  3. To consume alcoholic beverages.

    • You've been drinking, haven't you?
    • No thanks, I don't drink.
    • Everyone who is drinking is drinking, but not everyone who is drinking is drinking.
  4. ›+ 15 more definitions

    1. To take in (a liquid), in any manner

      To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.

      • Let the purple violets drink the stream.

    2. To take in

      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.
      • to drink the cooler air

    3. To toast (someone or something) with a drink, honour

      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.

    4. To smoke, as tobacco.

      • And some men now live ninety yeeres and past, Who never dranke tobacco first nor last.

    5. Used in phrasal verbs

      Used in phrasal verbs: drink down, drink in, drink off, drink out, drink to, drink up.

    6. A beverage.

      • I’d like another drink please.

    7. Drinks in general

      Drinks in general; something to drink.

      • For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink
      • These sources do not, however, state why the drink is called lambswool. The name comes from the way the apples are roasted until they split open, and their pulp froths over the skin; this is used to float on top of the bowl of drink.

    8. A type of beverage (usually mixed).

      • My favourite drink is the White Russian.

    9. A (served) alcoholic beverage.

      • Can I buy you a drink?

    10. The action of drinking, especially with the verbs take or have.

      • He was about to take a drink from his root beer.

    11. Alcoholic beverages in general.

      • She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.
      • By the late twenties father has died of drink and his wife is left to raise their two sons.

    12. A standard drink.

      • A drink of wine is about 5 ounces
      • And when (SUBJECT) was 55, would you say (he/she) drank more than, less than, or about 2 to 3 drinks a day?

    13. Any body of water.

      • If he doesn't pay off the mafia, he’ll wear cement shoes to the bottom of the drink!
      • In seconds, we went from sitting in a boat to threading ice-cold water. I wasn't wearing a life jacket and am not the best paddler, but there I was, in the drink, splashing around.

    14. A downpour

      A downpour; a cloudburst; a rainstorm; a deluge; a lot of rain.

    15. Amount.

      • He [a sea-serpent] was giant, massive. A huge drink of man-eater. But even now, you know, I could take him.

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Derived

antidrink, B-drink, be the worse for drink, black drink, call drink, can I buy you a drink, cold drink money, cooldrink, dew-drink, drank, drink alert, drink-driver, drink-driving, drinkery, drinkfest, drink hail, drinkie, drinkless, drink link, drinkmaking, drinkologist, drinkometer, drink problem, drink run, drinks cabinet, drink shop, drinksie, drinks o'clock, drinks table, drinks trolley, drinkstuff, drinks waiter, drink table, drink walking, drinkwater, drinkworthy, drive to drink, energy drink, fizzy drink, fountain drink · +37 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at drink. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at drink. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at drink

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA