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WordBand 4.5–5.5Core (NGSL)
drink
/dɹɪŋk/
verb1 of 2
to put water in your body through your mouth
- “Smoking and drinking too much is bad for the body.”Tatoeba
- “Let's wrap up this work now and go out drinking.”Tatoeba
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noun2 of 2
A beverage.
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Source: New General Service List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)