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Hello, I came across this post from 2003. Wouldn't "water" be the appropriate verb? I suppose it does not work very well for other liquids, though.  Quote:
From: Mark Denny (mwdennyATstanford.edu)
Subject: There's no word for it?
My daughter (a student at Stanford) recently raised a question regarding the English language that her colleagues and professors couldn't answer, and it has me stumped as well: When you give someone something to eat, you feed them. When you give someone something to drink you ___ them. What is the appropriate word?
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Many other languages have words to differentiate the two, e.g. the Hindi "khilana" (to give something to eat), and "pilana" (to give something to drink). In English, "feed" serves both purposes, as in, "feeding milk to a child". But if you really want a separate term, the closest might be "libate" (to pour out wine in honor of a god). Perhaps you can try extending its meaning and use it generically. -Anu
p.s. It's peculiar how this system removes the 2 proper spaces after a period and indentation and yet adds all that extraneous whitespace around the quotes.
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" Potatory" came up a few weeks ago. I don't know of any transitive verbs along these lines.
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This is from onelook.com
verb: supply water or liquid to in order to maintain a healthy balance (Example: "The bicyclists must be hydrated frequently")
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"Hydrate" is a kinda clinical. I don't know anyone who uses it to mean "to serve drinks to," although I know athletes who speak of hydrating themselves.
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I use it often to my singers, but no, I wouldn't use as in serving drinks.
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my rowing coach used to tell us to keep hydrated, or to hydrate ourselves regularly.. but he was a bit of a freak. And i can't see it fitting in with serving drinks... seems too stiff for real life usage.
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Time for a neologism then. How about embeverage?
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Heehee that be a good word.
I can definately see myself walking up to someone with a tray of drinks and saying "embeverage me!"
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oh hell, why not just "beverage"? sounds like a good verb to me... 
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oh hell, why not just "beverage"?
sounds like a good verb to me...
What exactly is wrong with embeverage? "Empower" means to give power to, "embolden" means to make bold, embarrass means to give one the sensation of having an exposed posterior, so why not "embeverage"?
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