overdrink

English

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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Verb

overdrink (third-person singular simple present overdrinks, present participle overdrinking, simple past overdrank, past participle overdrunk)

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

     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.

Related terms

• overdrunken