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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DRUNK, a. [from drunken. See Drink.]
1. Intoxicated; inebriated; overwhelmed or overpowered by spirituous liquor; stupefied or inflamed by the action of spirit on the stomach and brain. It is brutish to be drunk.
Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess.
2. Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquor.
I will make my arrows drunk with blood. Deutoronomy 32.
[Note. Drunk was formerly used as the participle of drink; as, he had drunk wine. But in modern usage, drank has taken its place; and drunk is now used chiefly as an adjective.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol); "a noisy crowd of intoxicated sailors"; "helplessly inebriated" [syn: intoxicated, drunk, inebriated] [ant: sober]
2: as if under the influence of alcohol; "felt intoxicated by her success"; "drunk with excitement" [syn: intoxicated, drunk] n
1: a chronic drinker [syn: drunkard, drunk, rummy, sot, inebriate, wino]
2: someone who is intoxicated

Merriam Webster's

I. past participle of drink II. adjective Etymology: Middle English drunke, alteration of drunken Date: 14th century 1. a. having the faculties impaired by alcohol b. having a level of alcohol in the blood that exceeds a maximum prescribed by law <legally drunk> 2. dominated by an intense feeling <drunk with rage> 3. relating to, caused by, or characterized by intoxication ; drunken <drunk driving> III. noun Date: 1779 1. a period of drinking to intoxication or of being intoxicated <a 2-day drunk> 2. one who is drunk; especially drunkard

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & n. --adj. 1 rendered incapable by alcohol (blind drunk; dead drunk; drunk as a lord). 2 (often foll. by with) overcome or elated with joy, success, power, etc. --n. 1 a habitually drunk person. 2 sl. a drinking-bout; a period of drunkenness. Etymology: past part. of DRINK

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Drink Drink (dr[i^][ng]k), v. i. [imp. Drank (dr[a^][ng]k), formerly Drunk (dr[u^][ng]k); & p. p. Drunk, Drunken (-'n); p. pr. & vb. n. Drinking. Drunken is now rarely used, except as a verbal adj. in sense of habitually intoxicated; the form drank, not infrequently used as a p. p., is not so analogical.] [AS. drincan; akin to OS. drinkan, D. drinken, G. trinken, Icel. drekka, Sw. dricka, Dan. drikke, Goth. drigkan. Cf. Drench, Drunken, Drown.] 1. To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink from a spring. Gird thyself, and serve me, till have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink. --Luke xvii. 8. He shall drink of the wrath the Almighty. --Job xxi. 20. Drink of the cup that can not cloy. --Keble. 2. To quaff exhilarating or intoxicating liquors, in merriment or feasting; to carouse; to revel; hence, to lake alcoholic liquors to excess; to be intemperate in the ?se of intoxicating or spirituous liquors; to tipple. --Pope. And they drank, and were merry with him. --Gem. xliii. 34. Bolingbroke always spoke freely when he had drunk freely. --Thackeray. To drink to, to salute in drinking; to wish well to, in the act of taking the cup; to pledge in drinking. I drink to the general joy of the whole table, And to our dear friend Banquo. --Shak.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Drink Drink (dr[i^][ng]k), v. i. [imp. Drank (dr[a^][ng]k), formerly Drunk (dr[u^][ng]k); & p. p. Drunk, Drunken (-'n); p. pr. & vb. n. Drinking. Drunken is now rarely used, except as a verbal adj. in sense of habitually intoxicated; the form drank, not infrequently used as a p. p., is not so analogical.] [AS. drincan; akin to OS. drinkan, D. drinken, G. trinken, Icel. drekka, Sw. dricka, Dan. drikke, Goth. drigkan. Cf. Drench, Drunken, Drown.] 1. To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink from a spring. Gird thyself, and serve me, till have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink. --Luke xvii. 8. He shall drink of the wrath the Almighty. --Job xxi. 20. Drink of the cup that can not cloy. --Keble. 2. To quaff exhilarating or intoxicating liquors, in merriment or feasting; to carouse; to revel; hence, to lake alcoholic liquors to excess; to be intemperate in the ?se of intoxicating or spirituous liquors; to tipple. --Pope. And they drank, and were merry with him. --Gem. xliii. 34. Bolingbroke always spoke freely when he had drunk freely. --Thackeray. To drink to, to salute in drinking; to wish well to, in the act of taking the cup; to pledge in drinking. I drink to the general joy of the whole table, And to our dear friend Banquo. --Shak.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Drunk Drunk, a. [OE. dronke, drunke, dronken, drunken, AS. druncen. Orig. the same as drunken, p. p. of drink. See Drink.] 1. Intoxicated with, or as with, strong drink; inebriated; drunken; -- never used attributively, but always predicatively; as, the man is drunk (not, a drunk man). Be not drunk with wine, where in is excess. -- Eph. v. 18. Drunk with recent prosperity. --Macaulay. 2. Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid. I will make mine arrows drunk with blood. -- Deut. xxxii. 42.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Drunk Drunk, n. A drunken condition; a spree. [Slang]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(drunks) 1. Someone who is drunk has drunk so much alcohol that they cannot speak clearly or behave sensibly. I got drunk and had to be carried home... ADJ 2. A drunk is someone who is drunk or frequently gets drunk. A drunk lay in the alley. N-COUNT 3. If you are drunk with a strong emotion or an experience, you are in a state of great excitement because of it. They are currently drunk with success... ADJ: v-link ADJ, usu ADJ with n 4. Drunk is the past participle of drink.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

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.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Intoxicated, inebriated, drunken, in liquor. 2. Soaked, saturated, drenched.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

Drunk as a wheel-barrow. Drunk as David's sow. See DAVID'S SOW.

Moby Thesaurus

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