What is the word for helping someone to drink?

Feeding?

@RedDeerGuy1 When you want to tell someone you have finished helping someone eat, you’re just helping them drink, what word do you use, if you have to use one word?

Hydrate. I helped him hydrate.

Thanks. I don’t know why it didn’t come to me.

Ingesting is not the word for drinking. It is a word that means eating drinking or taking any other substance into the body by swallowing.

The german word is “trän­ken”.

I’m not so sure about ‘hydrate’.

Technically, hydration deals with the body’s ability to absorb water, increasing the percentage of water in the body. You can be hydrated with an IV – you don’t necessarily drink the water.

So if you’re looking for a similar word to ingest, ‘hydrate’ isn’t it. Conceptually, they are different.

Feeding is feeding and giving a drink is helping to drink. There isn’t one word for it.

Aiding in potation? Nah, I don’t think this is what you are looking for.

How about nurse? She nursed him back to health.

Thanks all.

@Lightlyseared and @elbanditoroso I see your points.

@ragingloli But I’m looking for an English word.
@janbb Please provide a source for ”There isn’t one word for it.”
@ZEPHYRA No, I need one word.
@RedDeerGuy1 I think nursing someone back to health would include in every way, like turning them ove to prevent bed sores etc.

@flo My own knowledge of the English language.

@janbb Our knowledge comes from somewhere. And some sources can be wrong too. Different sources say opposite or different things about all kinds of things.

Enfluidating.

@flo You can’t ask @flo to provide a source that proves a negative. That Would be an example of argumentum ad ignorantiam.

My sister calls it enabling.

@zenvelo You can answer the OP if you want.
By the way, does @janbb need your help?

@canidmajor I wonder if it could also mean via an IV?

@flo
It would not be the first word that the English language has stolen from German.

Psst @canidmajor just made that word up.

@zenvelo Also, please respond to my response to @janbb (that our knowledge comes from somewhere)

I think the fundamental point is that you can lead a person to water, but you cannot make them drink.

Damn skippy I made it up! But it’s a good word.
And @flo, I would trust @janbb in this. She is a librarian at a higher institute of learning, with at least one degree past a Bachelors to back up her claim. That’s where her knowledge comes from. She doesn’t need our help here, but we are willing to jump in and defend her from your snidely presented disclaimer about knowledge.

@canidmajor I responded to your answer to the OP. You can “infuidiate” (of course it’s a made up word) someone via an IV, yes?

Oh, @flo, do read it correctly.
And you didn’t know it was a made up word unless you looked it up (or believed @janbb), because it was logically constructed by linguistic standards. And your question is moot, because it’s a made up word.
And this line of discussion has moved into the silly realm.

Ok then @canidmajor

By the way, all words are made up, the moot point is that you made up the word, not the question, i.e the via IV thing.

<eyeroll>

How about quench?

@RedDeerGuy1 The question is specifically about helping someone to drink – not just drinking.

@janbb Ok maybe no word exists yet? How about revitalize? refill? refresh?

@RedDeerGuy1 Those words can be used for all kinds of things that have nothing to do with liquid and ingesting and people and helping someone to drink.