drunk

UK /dɹʌŋk/ US /dɹʌŋk/
adj 4noun 4adv 1

Definitions

adj

1

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.

"What part of 'you got drunk' did our parents misunderstand?" "I only drank a few shots!"

2

Habitually or frequently in a state of intoxication.

3

Elated or emboldened.

Drunk with power, he immediately ordered a management reshuffle.

drunk with recent prosperity

4

Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.

I will make mine arrows drunk with blood.

adv

1

While drunk.

He was arrested for driving drunk.

noun

1

One who is intoxicated with alcohol.

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

2

A habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.

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

3

A drinking bout; a period of drunkenness.

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

Life probably would have continued in blissful ignorance if it had not been for Vito's occasional late-night drunks. Usually he got plastered and misplaced his keys […] and bellowed obscenities into our shared hallway.

4

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!

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