| drunk | 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) Origin: OE. Dronke, drunke, dronken, drunken, AS. Druncen. Orig. The same as drunken, p. P. Of drink. See Drink. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| drunken | 1. Overcome by strong drink; intoxicated by, or as by, spirituous liquor; inebriated. "Drunken men imagine everything turneth round." (Bacon) 2. Saturated with liquid or moisture; drenched. "Let the earth be drunken with our blood." (Shak) 3. Pertaining to, or proceeding from, intoxication. "The drunken quarrels of a rake." (Swift) Origin: AS. Druncen, prop, that has drunk, p. P. Of drincan, taken as active. See Drink, and cf. Drunk. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| drunkenness | Intoxication, usually alcoholic. See: acute alcoholism. (05 Mar 2000) |