drink
Meaning
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- To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.
- To consume the liquid contained within (a bottle, glass, etc.).
- To consume alcoholic beverages.
- To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
- To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.
- (obsolete) To smoke, as tobacco.
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/dɹɪŋk/
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 Cognate with West Frisian drinke (“to drink”), Low German drinken (“to drink”), Dutch drinken (“to drink”), German trinken (“to drink”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål drikke (“to drink”), Norwegian Nynorsk drikka (“to drink”).
Cognate with Western Frisian
drinke
Cognate with Dutch
drinken
Cognate with German
trinken
Cognate with Dutch
drank
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