drunk

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Affected by drinking too much alcohol, so you cannot think or act normally.

   He got drunk at the party and could barely stand.

2. 2
   noun

   A person who is drunk or who often drinks too much alcohol.

   A drunk was shouting in the street outside the bar.

3. 3
   adv

   While in a drunken state.

   He was arrested for driving drunk.

4. 4
   adj

   So excited by something, such as power or success, that you lose self-control.

   Drunk with power, the new leader fired half the staff.

From Middle English drunke, drunken, ydrunke, ydrunken, from Old English druncen, ġedruncen (“drunk”), from Proto-Germanic *drunkanaz, *gadrunkanaz (“drunk; drunken”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *drinkaną (“to drink”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian dronken, West Frisian dronken, Dutch dronken, gedronken, German Low German drunken, bedrunken, German trunken, getrunken, betrunken, Swedish drucken, Icelandic drukkinn.

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