drink

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To take liquid into your mouth and swallow it.

   You should drink plenty of water in hot weather.

2. 2
   verb

   To consume alcohol, especially regularly.

   He doesn't drink, so he always drives us home.

3. 3
   noun

   An amount of liquid that you swallow; a beverage.

   Can I get you a cold drink?

4. 4
   noun

   Alcohol, or the habit of drinking too much of it.

   Drink was the cause of all his problems.

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Simplified etymology

Drink comes from Old English drinc. Its ancient English relatives included drenc, from which drench developed.

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 Yola drink (“to drink”), North Frisian drank, drainke, drink, drinke (“to drink”), West Frisian drinke (“to drink”), Alemannic German trénge, trenhu, trinche, tringhien, trinke (“to drink”), Bavarian dringa, trinckn, trinkhn, trinkn (“to drink”), Cimbrian t…

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