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Meaning: (obsolete,idiomatic,slang)To put too muchwaterin something;overdilute.1821,The Economist, page241:[…]I tell myBowlFriends, that our ministers have spoilt the punch. Sometimes they give us too much spirit, as when they display a vigour beyond the law; and sometimes, as we say, theydrown the Miller, and make sad insipid stuff of it; again they sting our throats with acid; but it is not once in a century that we have cause to complain of an excess of sugar.
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