drink
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (ambitransitive) To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.Examples: "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 […]"Synonyms: gulp, imbibe, quaff, sip, see Thesaurus:drinkambitransitive
2. (transitive, metonymic) To consume the liquid contained within (a bottle, glass, etc.).Examples: "Jack drank the whole bottle by himself."metonymicallytransitive
3. (intransitive) To consume alcoholic beverages.Examples: "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."Synonyms: drink alcohol, booze#Verbintransitive
4. (transitive) To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.Examples: "Let the purple violets drink the stream."transitive
5. (transitive) To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.Examples: "My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words / Of that tongue's utterance."; "to drink the cooler air"transitive
6. (transitive, archaic) To toast (someone or something) with a drink, honour; to wish well (see drink to), especially:Examples: "Drink to lofty hopes that cool — Visions of a perfect State : Drink we, last, the public fool, Frantic love and frantic hate."archaictransitive
noun (English)
1. (uncountable) Drinks in general; something to drink.Examples: "For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink"uncountable
2. (colloquial, with the) Any body of water.Examples: "If he doesn't pay off the mafia, he’ll wear cement shoes to the bottom of the drink!"; "When in mid-Channel the speed slowed and I was informed by A.C. Russell that another dinghy had been spotted. This turned out to contain a Canadian fighter pilot who had been in the drink for three days and was in rather a bad way. He said he had seen all the aircraft flying over in the two days before D-Day and since, but no one had sighted him."; "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."colloquialcountableuncountable
3. (Australia, figurative) A downpour; a cloudburst; a rainstorm; a deluge; a lot of rain.Examples: "Now this is going to bring some huge totals of rainfall with it—200 to 400 millimetres with it—and along with that, these winds—gusts to 275 kilometres an hour near the cyclone [Cyclone Ilsa] core—and that's a real concern. That's very destructive winds and it's going to carry this inertia and the rain with it well inland. And we're likely going to be talking about a cyclone all the way through Friday as it slowly weakens, eventually washing that moisture out into a front going through the south. It means the southeast is getting a drink but W.A.'s northwest really copping it, individual totals significantly higher than what you're seeing here [on the weather map]."Australiacountablefigurativelyuncountable
Definition source: Wiktionary