drunk

B1
US /dɹʌŋk/
adj adv noun Freq #946

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.

    So I took a great dry gourd and, cutting open the head, scooped out the inside and cleaned it; after which I gathered grapes from a vine which grew hard by and squeezed them into the gourd, till it was full of the juice. Then I stopped up the mouth and set in the sun, where I left it for some days, until it became strong wine; and every day I used to drink of it, to comfort and sustain me under my fatigues with that from froward and obstinate fiend; and as often as I drank myself drunk, I forgot my troubles and took new heart.

  2. 2
    adj

    Elated or emboldened.

    Drunk with power, he immediately ordered a management reshuffle.

  3. 3
    adj

    Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.

    I will make mine arrows drunk with blood.

  4. 4
    adv

    While drunk.

    He was arrested for driving drunk.

  5. 5
    noun

    One who is intoxicated with alcohol.

    She famously could not drive, but she introduced the breathalyser test to prosecute drunks who tried to.

  6. 6
    noun

    A habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.

    Another drunk is sleeping in dangerous proximity to a brush fire.

  7. 7
    noun

    A drinking bout; a period of drunkenness.

    Gen. G. had been on a long drunk from July last until Christmas.

  8. 8
    noun

    A drunken state.

    Here – help yourself to another drop there, Redmond! By the time we've got a good drunk on us there'll be more crack in this valley than the night I pissed on the electric fence!

Etymology

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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Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 adj · intoxicated as a result of... buzzedtipsy
3 adj · drenched or saturated with... wet
6 noun · a habitual drinker,... alcoalcoholicalkiebacchanalbacchantbarflybibberbooze artistboozehoundboozerborachiobouser
More adriparseholedbedrunkenbefuddledbeliquoredbesottedbesottenbevviedbibaciousbibulousbingoedbinned
Opposites
abstemiouscleanclearheadedsoberteetotal
Word family
Derived forms cock-drunkcrunkcumdrunkdrunchiesdrungrydrunk-drivingdrunkaloguedrunkarddrunkendrunkennessdrunkerydrunkie
Related forms alcoholicaskewbrokendrunkarddrunkennessimpairedincapacitatedspancelled

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