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To drink in

Drink \Drink\, v. t.

  1. To swallow (a liquid); to receive, as a fluid, into the stomach; to imbibe; as, to drink milk or water.

    There lies she with the blessed gods in bliss, There drinks the nectar with ambrosia mixed.
    --Spenser.

    The bowl of punch which was brewed and drunk in Mrs. Betty's room.
    --Thackeray.

  2. To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.

    And let the purple violets drink the stream.
    --Dryden.

  3. To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.

    To drink the cooler air,
    --Tennyson.

    My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words Of that tongue's utterance.
    --Shak.

    Let me . . . drink delicious poison from thy eye.
    --Pope.

  4. To smoke, as tobacco. [Obs.]

    And some men now live ninety years and past, Who never drank to tobacco first nor last.
    --Taylor (1630.)

    To drink down, to act on by drinking; to reduce or subdue; as, to drink down unkindness.
    --Shak.

    To drink in, to take into one's self by drinking, or as by drinking; to receive and appropriate as in satisfaction of thirst. ``Song was the form of literature which he [Burns] had drunk in from his cradle.''
    --J. C. Shairp.

    To drink off or To drink up, to drink completely, especially at one draught; as, to drink off a cup of cordial.

    To drink the health of, or To drink to the health of, to drink while expressing good wishes for the health or welfare of.

Usage examples of "to drink in".

But in the hours before and after the sun, then he moves, skittering sure and rapid as a spider among the hewn stones of the palace walls, stopping only to drink in the fly-strewn standing water that remains from the last storm.

You start to drink in that little bar by the house and by the time you come here for the first one of the day you’.

I must have had a look of doubt on my face, for he then went on to explain that he used to drink in his youth, but that one day he simply dropped it.

I wanted to touch his bare skin to mine, to drink in every inch of him, into every inch of me.

In the middle of the gallery, the prisoner stopped for a moment to contemplate the infinite horizon, to inhale the sulphurous perfumes of the tempest, to drink in thirstily the hot rain, and to breathe a sigh resembling a smothered roar.

The Universal Declaration of Allhuman Rights, which Kadesh had signed some years previously under the guns of an Empire fleet, gave T-humans the right to drink in his bar, but, by the Cave Dweller, the bartender was going to see to it that Byrne did drink, or leave.