drunk

v.
Past participle of drink.

adj.

1. 1. Intoxicated with alcoholic liquor to the point of impairment of physical and mental faculties.
   2. Caused or influenced by intoxication.
2. Overcome by strong feeling or emotion: drunk with power.

n.

1. A drunkard.
2. A bout of drinking.

USAGE NOTE   As an adjective the form drunk is used after a verb while the form drunken is now used only in front of a noun: They were drunk last night. A drunken patron at the restaurant ruined our evening. Using drunk in front of a noun is usually considered unacceptable in formal style, but the phrases drunk driver and drunk driving, which have become fixed expressions, present an exception to this. Drunk and drunken are sometimes used to make a legal distinction, whereby a drunk driver is a driver whose alcohol level exceeds the legal limit, and a drunken driver is a driver who is inebriated.

adjective

Stupefied, excited, or muddled with alcoholic liquor: besotted, crapulent, crapulous, drunken, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, sodden, tipsy. Informal cockeyed, stewed. Slang blind, bombed, boozed, boozy, crocked, high, lit (up), loaded, looped, pickled, pixilated, plastered, potted, sloshed, smashed, soused, stinking, stinko, stoned, tight, zonked. Idioms: drunk as a skunk, half-seas over, high as a kite, in one's cups, three sheetsintothe wind. See drugs/temperance.

noun

1. A person who is habitually drunk: drunkard, inebriate, sot, tippler. Slang boozehound, boozer, lush², rummy¹, soak, souse, sponge, stiff. See drugs/temperance.
2. A drinking bout: binge, brannigan, carousal, carouse, spree. Slang bat², bender, booze, jag, tear¹. See drugs/temperance, restraint/unrestraint.

adj

Definition: intoxicated by alcohol
Antonyms: sober, straight

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IN BRIEF: n. - Someone who is intoxicated; A chronic drinker. adj. - Stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol); Having swallowed a liquid to quench thirst.

The stag at eve had drunk his fill. — Sir Walter Scott, Source: The Lady of the Lake, 1810

Being drunk, as opposed to simply be intoxicated, can represent loss of control and abandonment to irrational forces. Drunkenness can also symbolize exhaustion, as in the expression "punch drunk."

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - beruset, overvældet
n. - dranker, druktur

idioms:

• drunk and disorderly    fuld og på rulleskøjter

Nederlands (Dutch)
dronken, door het dolle heen, dronkaard, drinkgelag, drank

Français (French)
adj. - (fig) ivre, enivré, grisé, (Jur) en état d'ivresse publique
n. - homme ou femme soûl(e), soûlard(e)

idioms:

• drunk and disorderly    (Jur) en état d'ivresse publique ou manifeste

Deutsch (German)
n. - Betrunkener
adj. - -trunken, betrunken

idioms:

• drunk and disorderly    betrunken und die öffentliche Ruhe störend

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - μεθυσμένος, μπεκρής, μεθύστακας
adj. - μεθυσμένος

idioms:

• drunk and disorderly    (νομ.) (διαταράσσων την τάξη) υπό την επήρεια μέθης, σε κατάσταση μέθης

Italiano (Italian)
ubriaco, ebbro, avvinazzato

Português (Portuguese)
n. - bêbedo (m)
adj. - embriagado

Русский (Russian)
пьяница, пьяный

Español (Spanish)
adj. - borracho, delirante, ebrio
n. - borracho, ebrio

idioms:

• drunk and disorderly    borracho y haciendo escándalos en público

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - fyllo
adj. - full, berusad

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
喝醉了的, 醉汉, 酒鬼, 酒宴, 闹饮

idioms:

• drunk and disorderly    发酒疯

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 喝醉了的
n. - 醉漢, 酒鬼, 酒宴, 鬧飲

idioms:

• drunk and disorderly    發酒瘋

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 취한, 빠진
n. - 술꾼, 술자리

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 酔っぱらい
adj. - 酔って, うっとりして

idioms:

• drunk and disorderly    酔って乱暴な
• drunk as a lord    ひどく酔って

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) الشخص السكير (صفه) سكران, ثمل‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮שתוי‬
n. - ‮שיכור‬

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