Overdrink
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 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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More examples"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”).