Synonyms for drunk

Grammar : Adj

Spell : druhngk

Phonetic Transcription : drʌŋk

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Définition of drunk

Origin : past participle of drink, used as an adjective from mid-14c. in sense "intoxicated." In various expressions, e.g. "drunk as a lord" (1891); Chaucer has "dronke ... as a Mous" (c.1386); and, from 1709, "as Drunk as a Wheelbarrow." Medieval folklore distinguished four successive stages of drunkenness, based on the animals they made men resemble: sheep, lion, ape, sow. Drunk driver first recorded 1948. Drunk-tank "jail cell for drunkards" attested by 1912, American English. The noun meaning "drunken person" is from 1852; earlier this would have been a drunkard.

adj intoxicated by alcohol

Example sentences :

He's got a mother, but the ould woman's drunk most all the time.
Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger

If I'm left to myself to-night I'll get drunk and go out shooting tenants.
Extract from : « Viviette » by William J. Locke

"The Queen" and "the President" were drunk with all the honors.
Extract from : « Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 6, May 7, 1870 » by Various

The forty are drunk, and the three are but indifferent sober.
Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle

Grace had eaten little and drunk nothing; but Howe was slightly stimulated.
Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart

If water is impure, it must be boiled and then aerated before it is drunk.
Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 » by Various

One of the soldiers dancing was so drunk that the girl could hardly hold him up.
Extract from : « Government by the Brewers? » by Adolph Keitel

On this occasion I got drunk, for the second time in my life.
Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper

Still I confess that liquor did all the mischief, as I had drunk just enough to make me careless.
Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper

Eli's been drunk some, bur his girls are really a good deal of help.
Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic

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