drink
[ dringk ]
/ drɪŋk /
verb (used without object), drank or (Nonstandard) drunk, drunk or, often, drank, drink·ing.
verb (used with object), drank or (Nonstandard) drunk, drunk or, often, drank, drink·ing.
noun
Origin of drink
before 900; Middle English
drinken, Old English
drincan; cognate with Dutch
drinken, German
trinken, Gothic
drinkan, Old Norse
drekka
synonym study for drink
5.
Drink,
imbibe,
sip refer to swallowing liquids.
Drink is the general word:
to drink coffee.
Imbibe is formal in reference to actual drinking; it is used more often in the sense to absorb:
to imbibe culture.
Sip implies drinking little by little:
to sip a cup of broth.
usage note for drink
As with many verbs of the pattern
sing, sang, sung and
ring, rang, rung, there is some confusion about the forms for the past tense and past participle of
drink. The historical reason for this confusion is that originally verbs of this class in Old English had a past-tense singular form in
a but a past-tense plural form in
u. Generally the form in
a has leveled out to become the standard past-tense form:
We drank our coffee. However, the past-tense form in
u, though considered nonstandard, occurs often in speech:
We drunk our coffee.
The standard and most frequent form of the past participle of drink in both speech and writing is drunk : Who has drunk all the milk? However, perhaps because of the association of drunk with intoxication, drank is widely used as a past participle in speech by educated persons and must be considered an alternate standard form: The tourists had drank their fill of the scenery. See also drunk.
The standard and most frequent form of the past participle of drink in both speech and writing is drunk : Who has drunk all the milk? However, perhaps because of the association of drunk with intoxication, drank is widely used as a past participle in speech by educated persons and must be considered an alternate standard form: The tourists had drank their fill of the scenery. See also drunk.
OTHER WORDS FROM drink
out·drink, verb (used with object), out·drank or (Nonstandard) out·drunk; out·drunk or, often, out·drank; out·drink·ing. o·ver·drink, verb (used with object), o·ver·drank or (Nonstandard) o·ver·drunk; o·ver·drunk or, often, o·ver·drank; o·ver·drink·ing.Words nearby drink
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British Dictionary definitions for drink
drink
/ (drɪŋk) /
verb drinks, drinking, drank (dræŋk) or drunk (drʌŋk)
noun
Derived forms of drink
drinkable, adjectiveWord Origin for drink
Old English
drincan; related to Old Frisian
drinka, Gothic
drigkan, Old High German
trinkan
Idioms and Phrases with drink
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