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/dɹʌŋk/ · adjective
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.
"What part of 'you got drunk' did our parents misunderstand?" "I only drank a few shots!"
Drunk with power, he immediately ordered a management reshuffle.
drunk with recent prosperity
I will make mine arrows drunk with blood.
He was arrested for driving drunk.
She famously could not drive, but she introduced the breathalyser test to prosecute drunks who tried to.
Another drunk is sleeping in dangerous proximity to a brush fire.
Use drunk when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Drunk means Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages..
Common synonyms include boozy, sottish, wet, tipsy.
Possible antonyms include abstemious, clean, clearheaded, on the wagon.
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.
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