vertrinken

== German == === Etymology === ver- +‎ trinken === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /fərˈtrɪŋkən/, /fɛr-/, [fɐˈtʁɪŋ.kŋ̍], [fɛɐ̯-], [-kən] Hyphenation: ver‧trin‧ken === Verb === vertrinken (class 3 strong, third-person singular present vertrinkt, past tense vertrank, past participle vertrunken, past subjunctive vertränke, auxiliary haben) (transitive) to drink away (spend something on drinking alcohol) Synonym: (commoner) versaufen (transitive, rare) to drink away, drown (overcome something by drinking alcohol) Synonyms: ertränken, antrinken gegen, wegtrinken, schönsaufen (reflexive, obsolete) to get drunk Synonym: sich betrinken (intransitive, obsolete or dialectal) to drown (die of suffocation in a liquid) Synonym: ertrinken ==== Conjugation ==== === Further reading === “vertrinken” in Duden online “vertrinken”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German)