drink

1. 1

   To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.ambitransitive

   • He drank the water I gave him.
   • You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.
2. 2

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

   • Jack drank the whole bottle by himself.
3. 3

   To consume alcoholic beverages.intransitive

   • You've been drinking, haven't you?
   • No thanks, I don't drink.
4. 4

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

   • Let the purple violets drink the stream.
5. 5

   To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.transitive

   • My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words / Of that tongue's utterance.
   • to drink the cooler air
6. 6

   To toast (someone or something) with a drink, honour; to wish well (see drink to), especiallyarchaictransitive

   • Drink to lofty hopes that cool — Visions of a perfect State : Drink we, last, the public fool, Frantic love and frantic hate.
7. 7

   To toast (someone or something) with a drink, honour; to wish well (see drink to), especially:; 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)').archaictransitive

   • At the same time were great Acclamations & they drunk Damnation to Dʳ. Sacheverell, Mʳ Tilly, and all the Dʳˢ friends.
8. 8

   To toast (someone or something) with a drink, honour; to wish well (see drink to), especially:; [with to ‘someone or something’]archaicobsoletetransitive

   • Had our great Pall ace the capacity To Campe this hoſt, we all would ſup together, And drinke Carowſes to the next dayes Fate Which promiſes Royall perill, Trumpetters With brazen dinne blaſt you the Cittics eare, Make mingle with our ratli
9. 9

   To smoke, as tobacco.obsoletetransitive

   • And some men now live ninety yeeres and past, Who never dranke tobacco first nor last.
10. 10

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

syn. drink · hydrate · imbibe · wet one's whistle · wet one's beak

1. 1

   A beverage.countableuncountable

   • What kind of drink would you like? We have soft drinks and hard drinks.
2. 2

   Drinks in general; something to drink.uncountable

   • 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.
3. 3

   A type of beverage (usually mixed).countableuncountable

   • My favourite drink is the White Russian.
4. 4

   A (served) alcoholic beverage.countableuncountable

   • Can I buy you a drink?
5. 5

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

   • He was about to take a drink from his root beer.
6. 6

   Alcoholic beverages in general.countableuncountable

   • 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.
7. 7

   A standard drink.countableuncountable

   • A drink of wine is about 5 ounces
8. 8

   Any body of water.colloquialcountableuncountable

   • If he doesn't pay off the mafia, he’ll wear cement shoes to the bottom of the drink!
9. 9

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

   • 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 dest
10. 10

    Amount.countableinformaluncountable

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