† fordrenchv.
Obsolete.
transitive.
a. To make drunk, intoxicate. literal and figurative.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [verb (transitive)] > make drunk
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c1000 Ælfric Genesis xix. 32 Uton fordrencan urne fæder færlice mid wine.
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 91 Þas men beoð mid miste fordrencte.
a1225 Leg. Kath. 2343 Þe þæt wes fordrenct wið þes deoules puisun.
b. To drown. Also intransitive.
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the world > life > death > cause of death > cause death [verb (transitive)] > by drowning
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the world > life > death > manner of death > die in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > die of drowning
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to be food for fishes1561
a1225 Juliana 61 Þe reade sea..þear as al pharaones forde fordrencte.
1430 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy ii. xvii Alterat with Bachus myghty Jous And affered of tournynge of the hous And fordreynt on the drye land.
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