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Drink

noun

1.

A single serving of a beverage. "Likes a drink before dinner"

2.

The act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess. Synonyms: boozing, crapulence, drinking, drunkenness.

3.

Any liquid suitable for drinking. Synonyms: beverage, drinkable, potable.

4.

Any large deep body of water.

5.

The act of swallowing. Synonyms: deglutition, swallow. "He took a drink of his beer and smacked his lips"

verb

(past drank, formerly drunk; past part. drunk, formerly drunken; pres. part. drinking)

1.

Take in liquids. Synonym: imbibe. "The children like to drink soda"

2.

Consume alcohol. Synonyms: booze, fuddle.

3.

Propose a toast to. Synonyms: pledge, salute, toast, wassail. "Let's drink to the New Year"

4.

Be fascinated or spell-bound by; pay close attention to. Synonym: drink in.

5.

Drink excessive amounts of alcohol; be an alcoholic. Synonym: tope.

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... he cried, cheerfully, perching himself with his birdlike lightness on the last of the prostrate chairs when he had reached the further end of the room. "I'm pretty active, Mrs. Valeria, considering I'm a cripple. Let us drink to the hanging of Mrs. Beauly in another ...

— The Law and the Lady • Wilkie Collins

... little spring had lost its way Amid the grass and fern; A passing stranger scooped a well Where weary men might turn. He walled it in, and hung with care, A ladle on the brink; He thought not of the deed he did, But judged that Toil might drink. He passed again; and lo! the well, By summer never dried, Had cooled ten thousand parched tongues, And ...

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... always wrong when we act from our feelings. My whole life, which some day or other I will tell you, proves that. Your brother—bah! is he not very well off with his own uncle and aunt?—plenty to eat and drink, I dare say. Come, man, you must be as hungry as a hawk—a slice of the beef? Let well alone, and shift for yourself. What good can you ...

— Night and Morning, Volume 2 • Edward Bulwer Lytton

... taking pity on their distress, ran to tell the emirs; and one of them coming, told Joinville to be of good cheer, for he would bring a drink that should cure him in two days. Under the influence of this beverage, the seneschal ere long recovered; and when he was well, he was sent for by the admiral, who commanded the ...

— The Boy Crusaders - A Story of the Days of Louis IX. • John G. Edgar

... anybody you've ever seen. Never enters the Philadelphian Society. He has no faith in that rot. He doesn't believe that public swimming-pools and a kind word in time will right the wrongs of the world; moreover, he takes a drink ...

— This Side of Paradise • F. Scott Fitzgerald

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