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DRUNK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who is intoxicated
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("drunk" is a kind of...):
drinker; imbiber; juicer; toper (a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "drunk"):
drunk-and-disorderly (someone arrested on the charge of being drunk and disorderly)
Derivation:
drunk (stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol))
Sense 2
Meaning:
A chronic drinker
Synonyms:
drunk; drunkard; inebriate; rummy; sot; wino
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("drunk" is a kind of...):
drinker; imbiber; juicer; toper (a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "drunk"):
alcoholic; alky; boozer; dipsomaniac; lush; soaker; souse (a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually)
Derivation:
drunk (stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol))
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)
Example:
helplessly inebriated
Synonyms:
drunk; gone; inebriated; intoxicated; ripped
Classified under:
Similar:
bacchanal; bacchanalian; bacchic; carousing; orgiastic (used of riotously drunken merrymaking)
beery (smelling of beer)
besotted; blind drunk; blotto; cockeyed; crocked; fuddled; loaded; pie-eyed; pissed; pixilated; plastered; slopped; sloshed; smashed; soaked; soused; sozzled; squiffy; stiff; tight; wet (very drunk)
potty; tiddly; tipsy (slightly intoxicated)
bibulous; boozy; drunken; sottish (given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol)
doped; drugged; narcotised; narcotized (under the influence of narcotics)
half-seas-over (British informal for 'intoxicated')
high; mellow (slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana))
hopped-up; stoned (under the influence of narcotics)
Derivation:
drunk (someone who is intoxicated)
drunk (a chronic drinker)
Sense 2
Meaning:
As if under the influence of alcohol
Example:
drunk with excitement
Synonyms:
drunk; intoxicated
Classified under:
Similar:
excited (in an aroused state)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
Past participle of the verb drink
Context examples:
I was very pale in the looking-glass; my eyes had a vacant appearance; and my hair—only my hair, nothing else—looked drunk.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Ha! by the five wounds, many men of war have drunk my wine, but never one was more to my fancy than this little Englishman.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Here’s Joe Berks drinkin’ gin out of a mug, and you know what a swine he is when he’s drunk.”
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When no one could eat any more, the Professor proposed the first regular toast, which was always drunk at such times—Aunt March, God bless her!
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
But Mr. Elton had only drunk wine enough to elevate his spirits, not at all to confuse his intellects.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
We've told yarns by the camp-fire in the prairies; and dressed one another's wounds after trying a landing at the Marquesas; and drunk healths on the shore of Titicaca.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I had, the evening before, drunk plentifully of a most delicious wine called glimigrim, (the Blefuscudians call it flunec, but ours is esteemed the better sort,) which is very diuretic.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
"I understand you," he replied, with an expressive smile, and a voice perfectly calm; "yes, I am very drunk.— A pint of porter with my cold beef at Marlborough was enough to over-set me."
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
I tell you that precious brother of yours was drunk.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
When I came, I found him three parts drunk and in a vile temper.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
