Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - wine

(wines, wining, wined) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. Wine is an alcoholic drink which is made from grapes. You can also refer to alcoholic drinks made from other fruits or vegetables as wine. ...a bottle of white wine... This is a nice wine. N-MASS 2. Wine is used to describe things that are very dark red in colour. She wore her wine-coloured gaberdine raincoat. COLOUR 3. If you wine and dine, or if someone wines and dines you, you go out, for example to expensive restaurants, and spend a lot of money. Colleagues were furious at doing her work while she wined and dined... A lot of money went on wining and dining prospective clients. PHRASE: Vs inflect