drink
IPA: drˈɪŋk
noun
- A beverage.
- (uncountable) Drinks in general; something to drink.
- A type of beverage (usually mixed).
- A (served) alcoholic beverage.
- The action of drinking, especially with the verbs take or have.
- Alcoholic beverages in general.
- A standard drink.
- (colloquial, with the) Any body of water.
- (Australia, figurative) A downpour; a cloudburst; a rainstorm; a deluge; a lot of rain.
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.
- (transitive, metonymically) To consume the liquid contained within (a bottle, glass, etc.).
- (intransitive) To consume alcoholic beverages.
- (transitive) To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
- (transitive) To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.
- (transitive, obsolete) To smoke, as tobacco.
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Examples of "drink" in Sentences
- They had to drink the desalinated water.
- Drinking alcohol can cause serious disease.
- They consecrated the water they were to drink.
- Many people become nuts when they drink alcohol.
- Dinner is served as well as alcoholic drinks and delicatessen.
- But the residents of the country drink the water without harm.
- To coffee connoisseurs, this changes the whole dynamic of the drink.
- The essential problem with alcoholism isn't that the alcoholic drinks.
- The traditional occupation of the Sunga is distillation of alcoholic drinks.
- The church required abstention from the eating of meat or drinking of alcohol.