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overdrink en · VERB

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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”).

Meanings

1. (ambitransitive) To drink to excess.
   • 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. 1876, Atlantic Monthly, volume 38, page 107:

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