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Found 1 hit - Term: to drink in, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
drink \drink\, v. t.
   1. to swallow a liquid; to receive, as a fluid, into the
      stomach; to imbibe; as, to drink milk or water.
      1913 webster

            there lies she with the blessed gods in bliss,
            there drinks the nectar with ambrosia mixed.
                                                  --spenser.
      1913 webster

            the bowl of punch which was brewed and drunk in mrs.
            betty's room.                         --thackeray.
      1913 webster

   2. to take in a liquid, in any manner; to suck up; to
      absorb; to imbibe.
      1913 webster

            and let the purple violets drink the stream.
                                                  --dryden.
      1913 webster

   3. to take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to
      inhale; to hear; to see.
      1913 webster

            to drink the cooler air,              --tennyson.
      1913 webster

            my ears have not yet drunk a hundred words
            of that tongue's utterance.           --shak.
      1913 webster

            let me . . . drink delicious poison from thy eye.
                                                  --pope.
      1913 webster

   4. to smoke, as tobacco. obs.
      1913 webster

            and some men now live ninety years and past,
            who never drank to tobacco first nor last. --taylor
                                                  1630.
      1913 webster

   to drink down, to act on by drinking; to reduce or subdue;
      as, to drink down unkindness. --shak.

   to drink in, to take into one's self by drinking, or as by
      drinking; to receive and appropriate as in satisfaction of
      thirst. "song was the form of literature which he burns
      had drunk in from his cradle." --j. c. shairp.

   to drink off or to drink up, to drink completely,
      especially at one draught; as, to drink off a cup of
      cordial.

   to drink the health of, or to drink to the health of, to
      drink while expressing good wishes for the health or
      welfare of.
      1913 webster
see also:
to drink down to drink in to drink off to drink up to drink the health of to drink to the health of 


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Drink, definition of term: Drink
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Drink Up >> D Words
Drink Up, definition of term: Drink Up
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Soft Drink >> S Words
Soft Drink, definition of term: Soft Drink
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