Overdrink

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To drink to excess. ambitransitive

    "There is no disorder of any sort; nowhere in or about the Centennial did I see any one who had overdrunk the health of his country."

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"There is no disorder of any sort; nowhere in or about the Centennial did I see any one who had overdrunk the health of his country."

Etymology

From Middle English *overdrinken (attested only as a noun overdrink (“excessive drinking”)), from Old English oferdrincan (“to overdrink”), equivalent to over- + drink. Compare German übertrinken (“to overdrink”), Swedish överdrycka (“to overdrink”), Old English oferdrynċ (“excessive drinking, drunkenness”).

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