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vertrinken.

to drink away (spend something on drinking alcohol)

10 characters3 syllables approx.Deutsch language

Meaning & usage

verb/fərˈtrɪŋkən//fɛr-/[fɐˈtʁɪŋ.kŋ̍][fɛɐ̯-]

  1. to drink away (spend something on drinking alcohol)

    class-3 · strong · transitive
    Er hat sein ganzes Geld vertrunken.
    Sie hat zehn Jahre ihres Lebens vertrunken.

  2. to drink away, drown (overcome something by drinking alcohol)

    class-3 · rare · strong · transitive
    Da sitzen sie und vertrinken ihre Sorgen.

  3. to get drunk

    class-3 · obsolete · reflexive · strong

  4. to drown (die of suffocation in a liquid)

    class-3 · dialectal · intransitive · obsolete · strong
Where this word comes from

ver- + trinken

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