Meaning of drink | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.
   ambitransitive
2. To become an unquestioning advocate for a group, cause, or belief.
3. To consume the liquid contained within (a bottle, glass, etc.).
   metonymically, transitive
4. to take in eagerly. They listened eagerly, drinking in every detail. opneem يُصغي بِشَغَف попивам assimilar vpíjet se aufsaugen suge til sig δίνω μεγάλη προσοχή apreciar, empaparse de ahmima با اشتیاق پذیرفتن imeä itseensä avaler לִבלוֹעַ בְּצָמַא इंन्द्रियों द्वारा ग्रहण करना upijati, pozorno slušati issza vki szavait menerima dengan gembira drekka í sig ascoltare con interesse 吸収する 들이 마시다 traukti į save, įsiminti uzņemt; uztvert (iespaidus u.tml.) menerima dengan gembira in zich opnemensuge...
5. To consume alcoholic beverages.
   intransitive
6. to offer good wishes to, or wish well, while drinking. to drink someone's health; Raise your glasses and drink to the bride and groom. drink op يَشْرَبُ نَخْبَ، يَشْرَبُ لِصِحَّةِ فُلان пия за brindar pít na, připít auf jemands Wohl trinken skåle πίνω στην υγειά brindar, beber a la salud (kellegi) terviseks jooma به افتخار کسی یا چیزی نوشیدن nostaa malja boire à לִשְתוֹת לְחָיֵי- शुभकामनाएं करना nazdravljati, piti u nečije ime vkinek az egészségére iszik menyulang lyfta glasi og skála bere al...
7. To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
   transitive
8. to finish by drinking. Drink up your milk! drink op يَشْرَبُ كلَّ الكَأْس изпивам acabar de beber dopít, vypít austrinken drikke op πίνω μέχρι την τελευταία σταγόνα bebérselo todo ära jooma تا ته نوشیدن juoda loppuun vider son verre לִשתוֹת הַכֹּל पी कर खत्म करना ispiti az utolsó cseppig üríti (a poharat) menghabiskan drekka í botn, klára úr glasinu bere fino in fondo, vuotare 飲みほす 마셔버리다 išgerti izdzert habiskan opdrinken drikke ut/opp wypić تر پايه څښل acabar de beber a bea până la fund допи...
9. To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.
   transitive
10. To take into the mouth and swallow (a liquid).
11. To toast (someone or something) with a drink, honour; to wish well (see drink to), especially
    archaic, transitive
12. To swallow the liquid contents of (a vessel): drank a cup of tea.
13. To toast (someone or something) with a drink, honour; to wish well (see drink to), especially:
    archaic, transitive
14. 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)').
    archaic, transitive
15. To take in or soak up; absorb: drank the fresh air; spongy earth that drank up the rain.
16. [with to ‘someone or something’]
    archaic, obsolete, transitive
17. To take in eagerly through the senses or intellect: drank in the beauty of the day.
18. To smoke, as tobacco.
    obsolete, transitive
19. To give or make (a toast).
20. Used in phrasal verbs: drink down, drink in, drink off, drink out, drink to, drink up.
21. To bring to a specific state by drinking alcoholic beverages: drank our sorrows away.

Equivalents

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 […]”

“It was he who proposed the bowl of punch, which was brewed and drunk in Mrs. Betty’s room, and which Gumbo concocted with exquisite skill.”

“That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.”

“Jack drank the whole bottle by himself.”

“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.”

“I drink to the general joy of the whole table, / And to our dear friend Banquo.”

“Bolingbroke always spoke freely when he had drunk freely.”

“The waiter came up, and I ordered a Coke for her—she didn't drink—and a Scotch and soda for myself, but the sonuvabitch wouldn't bring me one, so I had a Coke, too.”

“You don't know how to drink. Your whole generation, you drink for the wrong reasons. My generation, we drink because it's good, because it feels better than unbuttoning your collar, because we deserve it. We drink because it's what men do.”

“Let the purple violets drink the stream.”

“My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words / Of that tongue's utterance.”

“to drink the cooler air”

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

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

“I ought not to have neglected a request of one of my correspondents so long as I have; but I dare say I have given him time to add practice to profession. He sent me some time ago a bottle or two of excellent wine to drink the health of a gentleman had by the penny post advertised him of an egregious error in his conduct. […]”

“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 ratling Tabourines, That heauen and earth may ſtrike their ſounds together, Applauding our approach.”

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

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