drunk
B1Meanings
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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.
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2
adj
Elated or emboldened.
Drunk with power, he immediately ordered a management reshuffle.
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3
adj
Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
I will make mine arrows drunk with blood.
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4
adv
While drunk.
He was arrested for driving drunk.
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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.
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6
noun
A habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.
Another drunk is sleeping in dangerous proximity to a brush fire.
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7
noun
A drinking bout; a period of drunkenness.
Gen. G. had been on a long drunk from July last until Christmas.
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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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