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drunk

  [druhngk]
Use drunk in a Sentence
–adjective
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.
–noun
4. an intoxicated person.
5. a spree; drinking party.
–verb
6. pp. and nonstandard pt. of drink.
Origin:
1300–50; ME drunken, OE druncen, ptp. of drincan to drink

Synonyms:
1. drunken, inebriated.

Antonyms:
1-3. sober.

Usage note:
Both drunk and drunken are used as modifiers before nouns naming persons: a drunk customer; a drunken merrymaker. Only drunk occurs after a linking verb: He was not drunk, just jovial. The actor was drunk with success. The modifier drunk in legal language describes a person whose blood contains more than the legally allowed percentage of alcohol: Drunk drivers go to jail. Drunken, not drunk, is almost always the form used with nouns that do not name persons: drunken arrogance; a drunken free-for-all. In such uses it normally has the sense “pertaining to, caused by, or marked by intoxication.” Drunken is also idiomatic in such expressions as drunken bum. See also drink.

drink

  [dringk] verb, drank or (Nonstandard) drunk, drunk or, often, drank, drink⋅ing; noun
–verb (used without object)
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.
–verb (used with object)
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.
–noun
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.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME drinken, OE drincan; c. D drinken, G trinken, Goth drinkan, ON drekka

Synonyms:
2. tope. 5. quaff. Drink, imbibe, sip refer to swallowing liquids. Drink is the general word: to drink coffee. Imbibe is formal in reference to actual drinking; it is used more often in the sense to absorb: to imbibe culture. Sip implies drinking little by little: to sip a cup of broth. 9. toast.

Usage note:
As with many verbs of the pattern sing, sang, sung and ring, rang, rung, there is some confusion about the forms for the past tense and past participle of drink. The historical reason for this confusion is that originally verbs of this class in Old English had a past-tense singular form in a but a past-tense plural form in u. Generally the form in a has leveled out to become the standard past-tense form: We drank our coffee. However, the past-tense form in u, though considered nonstandard, occurs often in speech: We drunk our coffee.
The standard and most frequent form of the past participle of drink in both speech and writing is drunk: Who has drunk all the milk? However, perhaps because of the association of drunk with intoxication, drank is widely used as a past participle in speech by educated persons and must be considered an alternate standard form: The tourists had drank their fill of the scenery. See also drunk.
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drink   (drĭngk)   
v.   drank (drāngk), drunk (drŭngk), drink·ing, drinks

v.   tr.

  1. To take into the mouth and swallow (a liquid).

  2. To swallow the liquid contents of (a vessel): drank a cup of tea.

  3. To take in or soak up; absorb: drank the fresh air; spongy earth that drank up the rain.

  4. To take in eagerly through the senses or intellect: drank in the beauty of the day.

    1. To give or make (a toast).

    2. To toast (a person or an occasion, for example): We'll drink your health.

  6. To bring to a specific state by drinking alcoholic liquors: drank our sorrows away.

v.   intr.

  1. To swallow liquid: drank noisily; drink from a goblet.

  2. To imbibe alcoholic liquors: They only drink socially.

  3. To salute a person or an occasion with a toast: We will drink to your continued success.

n.  

  1. A liquid that is fit for drinking; a beverage.

  2. An amount of liquid swallowed: took a long drink from the fountain.

  3. An alcoholic beverage, such as a cocktail or highball.

  4. Excessive or habitual indulgence in alcoholic liquor.

  5. Chiefly Southern U.S. See soft drink. See Regional Note at tonic.

  6. Slang A body of water; the sea: The hatch cover slid off the boat and into the drink.


[Middle English drinken, from Old English drincan; see dhreg- in Indo-European roots.]
drunk   (drŭngk)   
v.  Past participle of drink.
adj.  

    1. Intoxicated with alcoholic liquor to the point of impairment of physical and mental faculties.

    2. Caused or influenced by intoxication.

  2. Overcome by strong feeling or emotion: drunk with power.

n.  

  1. A drunkard.

  2. A bout of drinking.

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.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
drunk

  1. n.
    [of baseball bases] loaded. (See also loaded (sense 1).) : We're at the bottom of the fifth and the bases are drunk.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

drink  (v.)
O.E. drincan "to drink," also "to swallow up, engulf" (class III strong verb; past tense dranc, pp. druncen), from P.Gmc. *drengkan. Not found outside Gmc. Most I.E. words for this trace to PIE *po(i)- (cf. Gk. pino, L. biber, Ir. ibim, O.C.S. piti; see imbibe). The noun meaning "beverage, alcoholic beverage" was also in O.E. To drink like a fish is first recorded 1747.

drunk 
pp. of drink, used as an adj. from c.1340. In various expressions, e.g. "drunk as a lord" (1891); Chaucer has "dronke ... as a Mous" (c.1386); and, my personal favorite, from 1709, is, "He's as Drunk as a Wheelbarrow." Medieval folklore distinguished four successive stages of drunkenness, based on the animals they made men resenble: sheep, lion, ape, sow. Drunk driver first recorded 1948. Drunk-tank "jail cell for drunkards" is 1947, Amer.Eng. The noun meaning "drunken person" is from 1852; earlier this would have been a drunkard (1530), from M.E. dronken, participal adj. + -ard; first recorded 1275 as a surname, Druncard.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: 2drink
Function: noun
1 : liquid suitable for swallowing especially to quench thirst or to provide nourishment or refreshment
2 : alcoholic liquor
3 : a draft or portion of liquid (as water or a prepared beverage) taken or to be taken by an individual at one time

Main Entry: 1drunk
past participle of DRINK

Main Entry: 2drunk
Pronunciation: 'dr&[ng]k
Function: adjective
1 : having the faculties impaired by alcohol
2 : of, relating to, or caused by intoxication : DRUNKEN drunk driving —Time>

Main Entry: 3drunk
Function: noun
1 : a period of drinking to intoxication or of being intoxicated drunk>
2 : one who is drunk; especially : DRUNKARD
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Bible Dictionary

Drunk

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.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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