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WINE AND DINE
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Provide with food and drink, usually lavishly
Classified under:
Hypernyms (to "wine and dine" is one way to...):
host (be the host of or for)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 2
Meaning:
Example:
we wined and dined in Paris
Classified under:
Verbs of eating and drinking
Hypernyms (to "wine and dine" is one way to...):
banquet; feast; junket (partake in a feast or banquet)
"Wine and dine" entails doing...:
eat (eat a meal; take a meal)
booze; drink; fuddle; hit the bottle (consume alcohol)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Sentence example:
Sam and Sue wine and dine