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- verb transitive, intransitive To
drink in;drink up ; drink to the fullest; (reflexive )get drunk .
Etymologies
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From Middle English *bedrinken, from Old English bedrincan ("to drink in, drink up, absorb"); conflated with Middle English bidrenchen ("to soak up, steep"), from Old English bedrencan ("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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