bedrink

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verb

To drink in; drink up; drink to the fullest

OriginMiddle English *bedrinken ← Old English bedrincan ← Proto-West Germanic *bidrinkan →
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Meanings

verbbedrink (third-person singular simple present bedrinks, present participle bedrinking, simple past bedrank, past participle bedrunk or bedrunken)

present singular third person bedrinks · participle present bedrinking · past bedrank · participle past bedrunk · participle past bedrunken

  1. ambitransitivearchaicTo drink in; drink up; drink to the fullest

    "Thus the unsteady woman [bedrinks] intoxicates the firm and resolute man."

    1889, Solomon Caesar Malan, Original notes on the Book of Proverbs
    1 more example

    [...] not far from Tophana — the place of cannons — and doth there foolishly, selfishly, and sottishly bedrink himself unroyally drunk with bottle after bottle of champagne, [...]

    1860, Walter Thornbury, Turkish life and character
  2. archaicreflexiveto get drunk

    That "moreover it behooveth to scourge all such heretics as would have it that these herein-afore-mentioned swineherds had bedrunk themselves and did cunningly adduce this tale of witchery to the end that they might escape meet [...]"

    1899, University of Virginia, The Virginia spectator

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
get drunk

Origin

  1. Old English*bedrenċan“to drench completely”
  2. Middle Englishbidrenchen“to soak up, steep”
  3. Proto-West Germanic*bidrinkan
  4. Old Englishbedrincan“to drink in, drink up, absorb”
  5. Middle English*bedrinken
  6. Englishbedrink

From Middle English *bedrinken, from Old English bedrincan (“to drink in, drink up, absorb”), from Proto-West Germanic *bidrinkan; conflated with Middle English bidrenchen (“to soak up, steep”) (attested in Middle English bidrenkt (“soaked, drenched”)), from Old English *bedrenċan (“to drench completely”), equivalent to be- + drink and be- + drench. Cognate with Dutch bedrinken (“to drink up, get drunk”), German betrinken (“to get drunk”).

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