What's the difference between outdrink and overdrink?

Outdrink


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To exceed in drinking.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, when subjected to the bilateral ureter ligation, the experimental animals still outdrink the control ones, thus also suggesting a primary component of the polydipsia under study.

Overdrink


Definition:

  • (v. t. & i.) To drink to excess.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Overdrinking (polydipsia) is common in long-stay in-patients, but only gives rise to water intoxication when there is a variable functional renal abnormality such as SIADH causing water retention.
  • (2) However, it is injurious to health to overdrink in the sun, especially since you will probably be sitting outside, and around pint three you will go loopy and stop believing in sunscreen.
  • (3) It was concluded that the probability of drinking water in a session situation is reduced by a lengthy history of water unavailability, thereby attenuating the acquisition rate and final level of schedule-induced water overdrinking.
  • (4) Animals that were overdrinking either water or the 0.9% NaCl solution had extracellular fluid volumes that were greater than the NaCl-EtOH-polydipsic group, but they were not significantly larger than ad lib controls.
  • (5) The overdrinking elicited by SA lesions was blocked after SFO lesions.
  • (6) This suggests that rats overdrink to avoid anticipated illness, and fail to extinguish partially because they are never exposed to the fact that no illness will occur even if no drinking occurs.
  • (7) Over a comparable 4-week period, PVN-5,7-DHT rats also showed no tendencies to overeat or overdrink on a daily basis.
  • (8) Brattleboro rats drank more in response to intraperitoneal hypertonic NaCl than controls, but when their fluid losses were prevented by nephrectomy they did not overdrink.
  • (9) Overdrinking among young people tends to be episodic.
  • (10) An analogy was drawn between overeating by the obese and overdrinking by alcoholics.
  • (11) Implications for the prevention and amelioration of human ethanol overdrinking are discussed.
  • (12) The appetite was significantly related to the extent of body deficit, but overdrinking proportionate to initial deficit was characteristic.
  • (13) Both should avoid overeating and overdrinking, and have regular dietary habits.
  • (14) Hence, a history of 0.9% NaCl solution polydipsia interfered with the institution of chronic, ethanol overdrinking in this group.

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