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Drunk
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- 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."
- 2 Habitually or frequently in a state of intoxication. derogatory
- 3 Elated or emboldened. usually
"Drunk with power, he immediately ordered a management reshuffle."
- 4 Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
"I will make mine arrows drunk with blood."
- 1 stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol) wordnet
- 2 as if under the influence of alcohol wordnet
- 1 While drunk.
"He was arrested for driving drunk."
- 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 someone who is intoxicated wordnet
- 3 A habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.
"Another drunk is sleeping in dangerous proximity to a brush fire."
- 4 a chronic drinker wordnet
- 5 A drinking bout; a period of drunkenness.
"Gen. G. had been on a long drunk from July last until Christmas."
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- 6 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!"
- 1 past participle of drink form-of, participle, past
- 2 simple past of drink Southern-US, form-of, past
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.
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.
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.
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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