drunk
Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.
Adjective 3 meanings
Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.
Elated or emboldened.
“Drunk with power, he immediately ordered a management reshuffle.”
Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
Adverb 1 meaning
While drunk.
“He was arrested for driving drunk.”
Noun 4 meanings
One who is intoxicated with alcohol.
A habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.
A person whose behaviour when drunk tends to be of a specified kind.
“He's a talkative drunk; three beers in and he's chattering away about everything.”
A drinking bout; a period of drunkenness.
Etymology
From Middle English drunke, drunken, ydrunke, ydrunken, from Old English druncen, ġedruncen (“drunk”), from Proto-Germanic *drunkanaz, *gadrunkanaz (“drunk; drunken”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *drinkaną (“to drink”).
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DRUNK at a glance
DRUNK has 5 letters and scores 10 points in Scrabble (D 2 + R 1 + U 1 + N 1 + K 5) and 12 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,384 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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