drink
/ˈdɹɪŋk/ verb, noun
Forms drinks drinking drank drunk drinked drunken drinken dranken dhrink drinck drinke dink thrink
- verb (ambitransitive) To consume (a liquid) through the mouth. “He drank the water I gave him.”
- verb (transitive, metonymic) To consume the liquid contained within (a bottle, glass, etc.). “Jack drank the whole bottle by himself.”
- verb (intransitive) To consume alcoholic beverages. “You've been drinking, haven't you?”
- verb (transitive) To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
- verb (transitive) To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.
- verb (transitive, archaic) To toast (someone or something) with a drink, honour; to wish well (see drink to), especially:
- verb To express one's desire for the accomplishment of a toast, sentiment or event, to wish, hope (for), forward (especially as 'to drink the health (of someone)').
- verb (obsolete, with carouse) [with to ‘someone or something’]
- noun A beverage. “What kind of drink would you like? We have soft drinks and hard drinks.”
- noun (uncountable) Drinks in general; something to drink.
- noun A type of beverage (usually mixed). “My favourite drink is the White Russian.”
- noun A (served) alcoholic beverage. “Can I buy you a drink?”
- noun The action of drinking, especially with the verbs take or have. “He was about to take a drink from his root beer.”
- noun Alcoholic beverages in general.
- noun A standard drink. “A drink of wine is about 5 ounces”
- noun (colloquial, with the) Any body of water. “If he doesn't pay off the mafia, he’ll wear cement shoes to the bottom of the drink!”
Synonyms
gulp imbibe quaff sip see Thesaurus:drink drink alcohol booze hit the bottle hit the sauce hydrate wet one's whistle wet one's beak beverage swig alcoholic beverage drinking boozing drunkenness crapulence drinkable potable swallow deglutition fuddle toast pledge salute wassail drink in tope
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 include German trinken, Norwegian Bokmål drikke, and Italian trincare.
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”).
From Middle English drink, drinke (also as drinche, drunch), from Old English drynċ, from Proto-Germanic *drunkiz, *drankiz.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Dronk (“drink”), Cimbrian gatrànkh (“drink”), Dutch drank, dronk (“drink”), German Getränk, trank, Trunk (“drink”), German Low German Drank, Drunk (“drink”), Vilamovian gytrenḱ (“drink”), Danish drik (“drink, beverage”), Icelandic drykkur (“drink, beverage”), Norwegian Bokmål drikk (“drink”), Norwegian Nynorsk drikk, drykk (“drink, alcohol”), Swedish dryck (“drink”), Gothic 𐌳𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌲𐌺 (draggk), 𐌳𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌺 (dragk, “drink”).
Webster’s 1913
- verb To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink from a spring.
- verb To quaff exhilarating or intoxicating liquors, in merriment or feasting; to carouse; to revel; hence, to lake alcoholic liquors to excess; to be intemperate in the Pope.
- verb To swallow (a liquid); to receive, as a fluid, into the stomach; to imbibe; as, to drink milk or water.
- verb To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
Etymology [AS. drincan; akin to OS. drinkan, D. drinken, G. trinken, Icel. drekka, Sw. dricka, Dan. drikke, Goth. drigkan. Cf. Drench, Drunken, Drown.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “drink”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details