| 1. | being in a temporary state in which one's physical and mental faculties are impaired by an excess of alcoholic drink; intoxicated: The wine made him drunk. |
| 2. | overcome or dominated by a strong feeling or emotion: drunk with power; drunk with joy. |
| 3. | pertaining to or caused by intoxication or intoxicated persons. |
| 4. | an intoxicated person. |
| 5. | a spree; drinking party. |
| 6. | pp. and nonstandard pt. of drink. |
verb, drank or (Nonstandard
) drunk, drunk or, often, drank, drink⋅ing; noun | 1. | to take water or other liquid into the mouth and swallow it; imbibe. |
| 2. | to imbibe alcoholic drinks, esp. habitually or to excess; tipple: He never drinks. They won't find jobs until they stop drinking. |
| 3. | to show one's respect, affection, or hopes with regard to a person, thing, or event by ceremoniously taking a swallow of wine or some other drink (often fol. by to): They drank to his victory. |
| 4. | to be savored or enjoyed by drinking: a wine that will drink deliciously for many years. |
| 5. | to take (a liquid) into the mouth and swallow. |
| 6. | to take in (a liquid) in any manner; absorb. |
| 7. | to take in through the senses, esp. with eagerness and pleasure (often fol. by in): He drank in the beauty of the scene. |
| 8. | to swallow the contents of (a cup, glass, etc.). |
| 9. | to propose or participate in a toast to (a person, thing, or event): to drink one's health. |
| 10. | any liquid that is swallowed to quench thirst, for nourishment, etc.; beverage. |
| 11. | liquor; alcohol. |
| 12. | excessive indulgence in alcohol: Drink was his downfall. |
| 13. | a swallow or draft of liquid; potion: She took a drink of water before she spoke. |
| 14. | Informal. a large body of water, as a lake, ocean, river, etc. (usually prec. by the): His teammates threw him in the drink. |

drink (drĭngk) v. drank (drāngk), drunk (drŭngk), drink·ing, drinks v. tr.
[Middle English drinken, from Old English drincan; see dhreg- in Indo-European roots.] |
drunk (drŭngk) v. Past participle of drink. adj.
Usage Note: As an adjective the form drunk is used after a verb while the form drunken is now used only in front of a noun: They were drunk last night. A drunken patron at the restaurant ruined our evening. Using drunk in front of a noun is usually considered unacceptable in formal style, but the phrases drunk driver and drunk driving, which have become fixed expressions, present an exception to this. Drunk and drunken are sometimes used to make a legal distinction, whereby a drunk driver is a driver whose alcohol level exceeds the legal limit, and a drunken driver is a driver who is inebriated. |
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The first case of intoxication on record is that of Noah (Gen. 9:21). The sin of drunkenness is frequently and strongly condemned (Rom. 13:13; 1 Cor. 6:9, 10; Eph. 5:18; 1 Thess. 5:7, 8). The sin of drinking to excess seems to have been not uncommon among the Israelites. The word is used figuratively, when men are spoken of as being drunk with sorrow, and with the wine of God's wrath (Isa. 63:6; Jer. 51:57; Ezek. 23:33). To "add drunkenness to thirst" (Deut. 29:19, A.V.) is a proverbial expression, rendered in the Revised Version "to destroy the moist with the dry", i.e., the well-watered equally with the dry land, meaning that the effect of such walking in the imagination of their own hearts would be to destroy one and all.