What are some opposite words for drinking?
Antonyms for drinking
ˈdrɪŋ kɪŋdrink·ing
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term drinking.
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drinking, imbibing, imbibitionnoun
the act of consuming liquids
Synonyms:
boozing, imbibition, crapulence, drunkenness, imbibing, drinkdrink, drinking, boozing, drunkenness, crapulencenoun
the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess
"drink was his downfall"
Synonyms:
alcohol addiction, inebriation, swallow, tipsiness, potable, imbibing, intoxication, crapulence, drunkenness, insobriety, alcoholism, drinkable, drink, imbibition, inebriety, deglutition, beverage, boozing
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
drinkingnoun
Antonyms:
temperance nephalism, abstinence, teetotalismSynonyms:
potation, tippling, bibacity, drunkenness, carousal, guzzling, intemperanceAssociated words:
bibacious, bibulous, bibitory, dipsomania, alcoholism thirst, nectar, hobnob, bacchanalian, inebriant, potatory, œnomania, symposium, crapulence, supernaculum convivial, conviviality, tankard, beaker, cup, stein, canteen
How to use drinking in a sentence?
This data isn’t meant to scare anybody. We have one of the best public water drinking systems in the world.
The situation is very grave, they have no food, no water and are drinking their own urine. This is a game of maritime ping-pong with human life. We expect governments in the region to find a solution rapidly ... or we will be finding boatloads of desiccated corpses floating around in the Andaman Sea in coming days.
Pregnant mothers rely on a birthing environment that, at a minimum, does not place them or their baby at risk, saying nothing of the need for drinking-water or having to leave the facility to search for a toilet.
Peer Specialist Bobby Brazell:
I didn’t want to feel anything, so I started taking pills, drinking a lot, taking Zanax, pain pills, just basically anything I could, so that I didn’t have to feel reality.
The new waves of patients are those who survived the quake, but are sick because they were living in the open and drinking contaminated water.
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