• 飲食いんしょく — food and drink
• 飲料いんりょう — beverage
• 飲酒いんしゅ — drinking alcohol
• 飲物のみもの — drink, beverage

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飲 combines the 食 (eat) radical with 欠 (lack, open mouth). It originally depicted the act of opening one’s mouth to drink something, typically alcohol. The meaning later expanded to include all types of drinking.

水みずを飲のみます。
I drink water.

昨さく夜や、飲のみ会かいがありました。
There was a drinking party last night.