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
- "_whether they drink for drunk_, or _drink for dry_?"
- Poh! man, drink it down, rejoind the sailor, drink it downit wont hurt you.
- Inspiration, -- _Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also_: and again -- _Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink_.
- To date, they have handed out 2,000 liters of hydropacks (a packet you can drop into any water source no matter how polluted, put a straw in and drink), seven HydroWell Villages with enough supplies to produce 161,700 liters of drink* and have given 368
- The Law of the Jungle says that as the elephants are the lords of the jungle, they shall drink _first_: but they must be careful to drink _down the stream_, so that all the other animals may have a place higher up, where they can get _clear water to drink_.
- The boy went from ¨óh you can´t drink so I won´t drink´´ to ´´well I might have a couple of beers´´ to ´´we´re going out for couple more, be back in about an hour (10. 30pm - poor girlfriend tucked up in bed not being able to drink), to rather predictably rocking in at 4am smelling like a giant cocktail.
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