drink

verb

1. (ambitransitive)To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.

   “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.”

2. (metonymically, transitive)To consume the liquid contained within (a bottle, glass, etc.).

   “Jack drank the whole bottle by himself.”

3. (intransitive)To consume alcoholic beverages.

   “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.”

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

   “Let the purple violets drink the stream.”

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

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

   “to drink the cooler air”

6. (archaic, transitive)To toast (someone or something) with a drink, honour; to wish well (see drink to), especially

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

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

   “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. […]”

8. (archaic, obsolete, transitive)To toast (someone or something) with a drink, honour; to wish well (see drink to), especially:

   “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.”

9. (obsolete, transitive)To smoke, as tobacco.

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

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

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A beverage.

   “I’d like another drink please.”

2. (uncountable)Drinks in general; something to drink.

   “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. (countable, uncountable)A type of beverage (usually mixed).

   “My favourite drink is the White Russian.”

4. (countable, uncountable)A (served) alcoholic beverage.

   “Can I buy you a drink?”

5. (countable, uncountable)The action of drinking, especially with the verbs take or have.

   “He was about to take a drink from his root beer.”

6. (countable, uncountable)Alcoholic beverages in general.

   “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.”

   “The face of work is a drunk man in the same chair, chewing on the same bone for five thousand nights. The face of work is a, coffee cup in hand, frustrated: "You don't get it. They all don't get it. You don't understand, man." Daddy's on the drink again.”

   “[…] she was indeed Amanda in the flesh: a doughty chatterbox from Ohio who adopted the manner of a Southern belle and eschewed both drink and sex to the greatest extent possible.”

7. (countable, uncountable)A standard drink.

   “A drink of wine is about 5 ounces”

   “And when (SUBJECT) was 55, would you say (he/she) drank more than, less than, or about 2 to 3 drinks a day?”

8. (colloquial, countable, uncountable)Any body of water.

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

   “When in mid-Channel the speed slowed and I was informed by A.C. Russell that another dinghy had been spotted. This turned out to contain a Canadian fighter pilot who had been in the drink for three days and was in rather a bad way. He said he had seen all the aircraft flying over in the two days before D-Day and since, but no one had sighted him.”

   “In seconds, we went from sitting in a boat to threading ice-cold water. I wasn't wearing a life jacket and am not the best paddler, but there I was, in the drink, splashing around.”

   “If the planes couldn't make it, they would go in the drink, eject their rubber lifeboats, inflate them, climb in, and pray for the Navy to pick them up before the Germans did.”

9. (Australia, countable, figuratively, uncountable)A downpour; a cloudburst; a rainstorm; a deluge; a lot of rain.
10. (countable, informal, uncountable)Amount.

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