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" We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it."
Gary Allan

Meaning of "drank" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF DRANK

dræŋk


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DRANK

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Drank is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb drank in English.

WHAT DOES DRANK MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Drank

Drank may refer to: ▪ Drank, a grape flavored 'anti-energy' drink sold in some U.S. states. ▪ Purple drank, a recreational drug...

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO DRANK

PRESENT

Present
I drink
you drink
he/she/it drinks
we drink
you drink
they drink
Present continuous
I am drinking
you are drinking
he/she/it is drinking
we are drinking
you are drinking
they are drinking
Present perfect
I have drunk
you have drunk
he/she/it has drunk
we have drunk
you have drunk
they have drunk
Present perfect continuous
I have been drinking
you have been drinking
he/she/it has been drinking
we have been drinking
you have been drinking
they have been drinking
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I drank
you drank
he/she/it drank
we drank
you drank
they drank
Past continuous
I was drinking
you were drinking
he/she/it was drinking
we were drinking
you were drinking
they were drinking
Past perfect
I had drunk
you had drunk
he/she/it had drunk
we had drunk
you had drunk
they had drunk
Past perfect continuous
I had been drinking
you had been drinking
he/she/it had been drinking
we had been drinking
you had been drinking
they had been drinking
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will drink
you will drink
he/she/it will drink
we will drink
you will drink
they will drink
Future continuous
I will be drinking
you will be drinking
he/she/it will be drinking
we will be drinking
you will be drinking
they will be drinking
Future perfect
I will have drunk
you will have drunk
he/she/it will have drunk
we will have drunk
you will have drunk
they will have drunk
Future perfect continuous
I will have been drinking
you will have been drinking
he/she/it will have been drinking
we will have been drinking
you will have been drinking
they will have been drinking
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would drank
you would drank
he/she/it would drank
we would drank
you would drank
they would drank
Conditional continuous
I would be drinking
you would be drinking
he/she/it would be drinking
we would be drinking
you would be drinking
they would be drinking
Conditional perfect
I would have drank
you would have drank
he/she/it would have drank
we would have drank
you would have drank
they would have drank
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been drinking
you would have been drinking
he/she/it would have been drinking
we would have been drinking
you would have been drinking
they would have been drinking
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you drink
we let´s drink
you drink
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to drink
Past participle
drunk
Present Participle
drinking
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DRANK

brank · crank · elasmobranch · enrank · franc · frank · front-rank · Lanfranc · lophobranch · marsipobranch · nudibranch · opisthobranch · outrank · overrank · prank · rank · shrank · tectibranch · trank

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DRANK

dramaturgist · dramaturgy · Drambuie · dramedies · dramedy · drammach · Drammen · dramshop · Drancy · drangway · drant · drap · drapability · drapable · drape · drapeability · drapeable · draper · draperies · drapery

WORDS THAT END LIKE DRANK

academic rank · bell crank · cab rank · class rank · disrank · field rank · first cab off the rank · flag rank · forerank · overfrank · pull rank · substantive rank · taxi rank

Synonyms and antonyms of drank in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DRANK»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «drank» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «drank» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF DRANK

Find out the translation of drank to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of drank from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «drank» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

bebió
570 millions of speakers
en

English

drank
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

पिया
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

شربوا
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

пил
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

bebeu
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

পান
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

bu
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

meminum air
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

trank
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

飲んだ
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

마신
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Ngombe
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Uống
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

குடித்து
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

प्यायचा
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

içti
70 millions of speakers
it

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bevuto
65 millions of speakers
pl

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pili
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

пив
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

băut
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ήπιε
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Drank
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

drack
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

drakk
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of drank

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DRANK»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of drank
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «drank».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about drank

EXAMPLES

10 QUOTES WITH «DRANK»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word drank.
1
Ryan Adams
On 'Heartbreaker,' I had to sing those songs. I drank the way I did those songs. I ate the way I did those songs. I communicated the way I did those songs. With 'Gold,' I was trying to prove something to myself. I wanted to invent a modern classic.
2
Alphonse Allais
Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
3
Gary Allan
We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.
4
Carol Alt
I never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving.
5
John James Audubon
I ate no butcher's meat, lived chiefly on fruits, vegetables, and fish, and never drank a glass of spirits or wine until my wedding day. To this I attribute my continual good health, endurance, and an iron constitution.
6
Randy Bachman
I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the car and one leg was in the car. He looked at me and told me that I was a drunk and that he was ashamed to call me his son. That night, I stopped drinking and I never drank again; I was twenty four.
7
Lawrence Block
To say I drank my way into marriage isn't much of an exaggeration, and it's none at all to say I drank my way out of it.
8
Carole Bouquet
The first wine I drank, a Chateau Haut-Brion, I was 22, it was my first glass of wine, and I discovered voluptuousness. From there, I started tasting French wines, then Spanish wines, then Italian wines.
9
Jimmy Breslin
I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines.
10
Red Buttons
When people ask me if Dean Martin drank, let me put it this way. If Dracula bit Dean in the neck, he'd get a Bloody Mary.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DRANK»

Discover the use of drank in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to drank and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Never Drank the Kool-Aid: Essays
This is a searingly funny, surprisingly unguarded, and deeply insightful look at a world few of us comprehend.
Touré, 2007
2
He Drank, and Saw the Spider: An Eddie LaCrosse Novel
For fans of Jim Butcher's Dresden Files and Glen Cook's Garrett PI novels, comes the newest installment in Alex Bledsoe’s Eddie LaCrosse series, He Drank and Saw the Spider.
Alex Bledsoe, 2014
3
No Wonder My Parents Drank: Tales from a Stand-Up Dad
Riotously acerbic and refreshingly honest, No Wonder My Parents Drank casts the very funny Jay Mohr with an even funnier mini-me sidekick as a supporting character in a little comedic love story that every person who either is a parent or ...
Jay Mohr, 2010
4
The Boy Who Drank Too Much
The efforts of his friends almost fail to stop a lonely and isolated teenager from destroying himself with alcohol.
Shep Greene, 1980
5
Jesus Drank, Judas Repented and God Divorced His Bride ...
Reading this book will force you to re-evaluate your understanding of the bible.
Steve Brown, 2011
6
The Horse Who Drank the Sky: Film Experience Beyond ...
In The Horse Who Drank the Sky, Murray Pomerance brings attention to the visceral dimension of movies and presents a new and unanticipated way of thinking about what happens when we watch them.
Murray Pomerance, 2008
7
The Crucible: Drama in Two Acts
(Betty suddenly springs off bed, rushes across room to window where Abigail catches her.) BETTY. You drank blood, Abby, you drank blood! ABIGAIL. ( Dragging Betty back to bed and forcing her into it.) Betty, you never say that again ! You will ...
Arthur Miller, 1954
8
They Drank from the River and Died in the Wilderness
We are living in a land not our own.
David Ravenhill, 2000
9
When You're Up to Your Ass in Alligators: More Urban ...
I withdrew the cork from the first bottle and poured the contents down the sink — with the exception of one glass which I drank. I then withdrew the cork from the second bottle and did likewise — with the exception of one glass which I drank.
‎1987
10
A collection of healths and toasts drank by the friends to ...
A Drank in moft Public Companies, BEING Enemies to OPPRESSION, and Friends to the LIBERTIES of ENGLISHMEN. • • . . . ^ - .•• . • i. •.» •• ^ . * •.Ar. AS T L E Y, Sir Edward, Norfolk. • Aubrey, John, Wallingford. ->• ;.':J..'.> ' . • •"' Blake, Patrick ...
Englishmen, 1769

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DRANK»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term drank is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Family of Chinese official who drank too much at banquet and died …
Relatives of a Communist Party member who died after falling drunk at a banquet was recently compensated 1 million yuan (HK1.26 million), ... «South China Morning Post, Jul 15»
2
Pope Francis drinks coca leaf tea on South American tour
Pope Francis upon arrival in El Alto, a plateau over La Paz, 4,000 meters above sea-level. Te Pope drank a tea with coca leaves to combat ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
3
ODD NEWS: Man threw bike through restaurant window and drank
A MAN is in hot water after allegedly stealing a bicycle, throwing it through a Berlin restaurant window, then entering the premises and quaffing ... «Lancashire Telegraph, Jul 15»
4
Scott Andrew Garth accused of death by negligent driving 'drank
A Victorian man charged with causing the death of a Tasmanian grandmother in a head-on car crash has told a Hobart court he unknowingly ... «ABC Online, Jul 15»
5
I Drank 5 Rabbit's "Dump Trump" Beer, Chinga Tu Pelo
I Drank 5 Rabbit's "Dump Trump" Beer, Chinga Tu Pelo Previously sold exclusively to patrons with more money than beer knowledge, this ... «ChicagoNow, Jul 15»
6
Mark Buehrle drank beer during 2005 World Series game he pitched …
Baseball players have been known to let themselves go in the clubhouse on occasion and pop open a cold one, especially on days when ... «Larry Brown Sports, Jul 15»
7
Blackout author Sarah Hepola spurs the conversation about alcohol …
Hepola's startling new memoir Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget tracks her heavy-drinking days and propensity to conk out ... «The Globe and Mail, Jul 15»
8
Woman who drank up to six crates of lager A DAY attacked husband …
A WOMAN was drinking five or six CRATES of lager a day when her alcohol problem was at its worst, a court heard. Her family suffered ... «Grimsby Telegraph, Jul 15»
9
He drank 'an enormous amount': Hull court listings (July 4, 2015)
Peter Sansam, 25, of Welshpool Close, Bransholme, was jailed for 26 weeks for assault occasioning actual bodily harm and assaulting a ... «Hull Daily Mail, Jul 15»
10
fR€$H aka SHORT DaWG - Drank Sinatra & The Scripts (Prod. By …
Celebrate Independence Day with Short Dawg's Drank Sinatra & The Scripts. The 14-track tape is produced entirely by Cardo & Sledgren, and ... «HotNewHipHop, Jul 15»
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