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drink is a noun and verb meaning "a single serving of a beverage". It carries 10 recorded senses.
a single serving of a beverage
“I asked for a hot drink”
“likes a drink before dinner”
the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess
“drink was his downfall”
any large deep body of water
“he jumped into the drink and had to be rescued”
colloquialism
the act of swallowing
“one swallow of the liquid was enough”
“he took a drink of his beer and smacked his lips”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for drink come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.