Imbibe

  • 131drink — [c]/drɪŋk / (say dringk) verb (drank or, formerly, drunk, drunk or, sometimes, drank or …

  • 132beer — [OE] Originally, beer was probably simply a general term for a ‘drink’: it seems to have come from late Latin biber ‘drink’, which was a derivative of the verb bibere ‘drink’ (from which English gets beverage, bibulous, imbibe, and possibly also… …

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