You can use the verb `drink' intransitively, without a direct object. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Unrelated, but my pet peeve is “pass” used intransitively, without the word “away”, meaning “to die”. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » “The Modern Practice of Making Certain Nouns into Verbs”] Reference
Could it have something to do with confusion from using "bore" past tense of "bear," which can be used intransitively?. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: BORING.] Reference
Alternately, you can say I am bored with X, and then the analogy to "tire/tired" seems a good one: to use intransitively you say I tire of X. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: BORING.] Reference
Whereas a creature can be both intransitively conscious and transitively conscious of something, a mental state can only be intransitively conscious. From Wordnik.com. [Intentionality] Reference
His phenomenologies are phenomenological ontologies: they look at the coherence of something appearing precisely as how it exists, in its being taken intransitively, as be-ing or is-ing: Levinas said helpfully once that Heidegger's contribution to philosophy is in restoring an intransitive character to being. From Wordnik.com. [enowning] Reference
The very was formerly used intransitively in this sense. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Lake] Reference
Shakespeare uses the verb both transitively and intransitively. From Wordnik.com. [The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar] Reference
The transitive verb stow means to put in a place: here it is used intransitively. From Wordnik.com. [England's Antiphon]
The verb settle is used transitively of the action of peopling a place, as in "to settle a district," intransitively of the action of settling oneself, as in. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 3] Reference
I took my systems surrender, hypnotic it inhumanely etiology indistinguishable the ramous intransitively orumiyeh, and acquaintanceship out isopteran ajax of retrieval. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
Merriam-Websters notes that "'lay' has been used intransitively in the sense of" lie "since the 14th century. From Wordnik.com. [Younger, Nimbler, Cheaper:] Reference
2 State which of the verbs here used transitively may be used intransitively, and which used intransitively may be used transitively. From Wordnik.com. [Teachers' Outlines for Studies in English Based on the Requirements for Admission to College] Reference
Here used intransitively = awake. From Wordnik.com. [Milton's Comus] Reference
Round in itself encloses, used intransitively. From Wordnik.com. [England's Antiphon]
'glaze' is used intransitively in Middle English in the sense of 'shine brilliantly,' and Dr. Wright (Clar) says: "I am informed by a correspondent that the word 'glaze' in the sense of 'stare' is common in some parts of Devonshire, and that. From Wordnik.com. [The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar] Reference
Relenza smoothbore intransitively!. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Islands:] Reference
"muhandis," so here "bajaza" may stand for "bajasa" = gushed forth, used intransitively and transitively. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
But now commandeth all men every where to repent: Because he hath appointed •Strongs 2476: histemi, his´-tay-mee; a prolonged form of a primary sta¿w stao (of the same meaning, and used for it in certain tenses); to stand (transitively or intransitively), used in various applications (literally or figuratively): - abide, appoint, bring, continue, covenant, establish, hold up, lay, present, set (up), stanch, stand (by, forth, still, up). From Wordnik.com. [In The Days] Reference
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