DRINK IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does drink in mean? 

• DRINK IN (verb)
  The verb DRINK IN has 1 sense:

1. be fascinated or spell-bound by; pay close attention to

  Familiarity information: DRINK IN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRINK IN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be fascinated or spell-bound by; pay close attention to

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

drink; drink in

Context example:

The mother drinks in every word of her son on the stage

Hypernyms (to "drink in" is one way to...):

absorb; engross; engulf; immerse; plunge; soak up; steep (devote (oneself) fully to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

I lay at the bottom of the boat, and as I gazed on the cloudless blue sky, I seemed to drink in a tranquillity to which I had long been a stranger.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Now the little dwarf was getting their dinner ready, and he brought their food upon seven little plates, and their drink in seven little glasses, and set them upon the table, and out of each little plate their sister ate a small piece, and out of each little glass she drank a small drop; but she let the ring that she had brought with her fall into the last glass.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

And if I had loved him less I should have thought his accent and look of exultation savage; but, sitting by him, roused from the nightmare of parting—called to the paradise of union—I thought only of the bliss given me to drink in so abundant a flow.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Then all rode farther on their journey, till the day grew so warm, and the sun so scorching, that the bride began to feel very thirsty again; and at last, when they came to a river, she forgot her maid’s rude speech, and said, Pray get down, and fetch me some water to drink in my golden cup.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)