quaffed
past simple and past participle ofquaff
quaff
verb[IorT]
old-fashioneduk/kwɒf/us/kwæf/todrinksomethingquicklyor inlargeamounts
Synonyms
drink(LIQUID)
gulp
swiginformal
to drink
- drinkWhat would you like to drink?
- haveI don't let the children have sweet fizzy drinks.
- sipShe sipped the tea carefully because it was hot.
- swigHe was swigging milk from the bottle.
- gulp (down)Stop gulping your water!
- slurpThe children were eating pizza and slurping lemonade.
Drinking
- consume
- drink
- drink(something)up
- drinker
- drinking
- drinking fountain
- drinking water
- drunk
- mainline
- non-consuming
- non-consumption
- overindulge
- overindulgence
- overindulgent
- quench
- sip
- skol
- slurp
- sup
- swig
Examplesofquaffed
quaffed
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Water was too dangerous to drink for fear of bacterial and so ale and wine wasquaffedin quantity.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.At the end, all five of themquaffedfrom the steel bowl the remaining elixir binding themselves in new fraternal ties.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.You placed your nib with its tens of thousands of nostrils on the cliffs of my water sources and youquaffedthem from their depths and you drained them.
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- impending crisis
- impending danger
- impending death
- impending disaster
- impenetrable
- impenetrable barrier
- impenetrably
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- imperative
- imperative mood
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- imperative sentence
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- imperfective