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drunk
(drŭngk)v.
Past participle of drink.
adj.
1.
a. Intoxicated with alcoholic liquor to the point of impairment of physical and mental faculties.
b. 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 generally used after a verb such as be or seem, while the form drunken is used in front of a noun to modify it directly: They were drunk last night, but A drunken waiter at the restaurant ruined our evening. Using drunk in front of a noun is less formal, although the phrases drunk driver and drunk driving, which have become fixed expressions, are exceptions to this. Drunken also has a more general use, with the meaning "characterized by or related to alcohol or intoxication," as in a drunken sauce (one that has something containing alcohol, such as beer or wine, as an ingredient) or a drunken affair (a celebration in which the participants become drunk). Drunk generally does not have this meaning, although the noun drunk comes close, being a disparaging term for someone characterized by frequent drunkenness or alcoholism. A differentiation between drunk and drunken is sometimes made in legal language, wherein a drunk driver is a driver whose alcohol level exceeds the legal limit, and a drunken driver is a driver who is inebriated.
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drunk
(drʌŋk)adj
1. intoxicated with alcohol to the extent of losing control over normal physical and mental functions
2. (Psychology) overwhelmed by strong influence or emotion: drunk with joy.
n
3. a person who is drunk or drinks habitually to excess
4. informal a drinking bout
[Old English druncen, past participle of drincan to drink; see drink]
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drunk
(drʌŋk)adj.
1. being in a temporary state in which one's physical and mental faculties are impaired by an excess of alcoholic drink; intoxicated.
2. overcome or dominated by a strong feeling or emotion: drunk with passion.
3. pertaining to or caused by intoxication.
n. 4.
a. an intoxicated person.
b. drunkard.
5. a period of drinking alcohol heavily: a week-long drunk.
v. 6. pp. and nonstandard pt. of drink.
usage: Both drunk and drunken are used as modifiers before nouns naming persons: a drunk customer; a drunken merrymaker. Only drunk occurs after a linking verb: The actor was drunk with success. drunken is almost always the form used with nouns that do not name persons: drunken arrogance; a drunken brawl. See also drink.
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drunk
– drunkenDrunk is the past participle of the verb 'drink'.
See drink
1. 'drunk' used as an adjective
Drunk is also an adjective. If someone is drunk, they have drunk too much alcohol and are not in complete control of their behaviour.
The colonel was so drunk that he could barely get his words out.
She was being driven home by an extremely drunk young man.
When someone drinks too much alcohol and loses control of their behaviour, you say that they get drunk.
He had decided that he was never going to get drunk again.
We all got happily drunk.
2. 'drunken'
Drunken has the same meaning as 'drunk' but it is only used in front of a noun. You do not say that someone 'is drunken'.
...stiffer penalties for drunken drivers.
Groups of drunken hooligans smashed windows and threw stones.
You use drunken rather than 'drunk' to describe the behaviour of people who are drunk.
...a long drunken party.
I descended into a deep drunken sleep.
You also use drunken rather than 'drunk' to describe people who are often drunk.
Where will she go? Back to her drunken husband in Canada?
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| Noun | 1. |  drunk - a chronic drinker |
| 2. | drunk - someone who is intoxicated drunk-and-disorderly - someone arrested on the charge of being drunk and disorderly; "they delivered the drunk-and-disorderlies to the county jail" | |
| Adj. | 1. | drunk - stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol); "a noisy crowd of intoxicated sailors"; "helplessly inebriated" |
| 2. | drunk - as if under the influence of alcohol; "felt intoxicated by her success"; "drunk with excitement" excited - in an aroused state |
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drunk
adjective
1. intoxicated, loaded (slang, chiefly U.S. & Canad.), tight (informal), canned (slang), flying (slang), bombed (slang), stoned (slang), wasted (slang), smashed (slang), hammered (slang), steaming (slang), wrecked (slang), soaked (informal), out of it (slang), plastered (slang), drunken, blitzed (slang), pissed (Brit, Austral., & N.Z. slang), lit up (slang), merry (Brit. informal), stewed (slang), pickled (informal), bladdered (slang), under the influence (informal), sloshed (slang), tipsy, maudlin, well-oiled (slang), legless (informal), paralytic (informal), tired and emotional (euphemistic), steamboats (Scot. slang), tiddly (slang, chiefly Brit.), off your face (slang), zonked (slang), blotto (slang), fuddled, inebriated, out to it (Austral. & N.Z. slang), tanked up (slang), bacchic, rat-arsed (taboo slang), Brahms and Liszt (slang), half seas over (informal), bevvied (dialect), babalas (S. African), fu' (Scot.), pie-eyed (slang) I got drunk and had to be carried home.
noun
1. drunkard, alcoholic, lush (slang), boozer (informal), toper, sot, soak (slang), wino (informal), inebriate A drunk lay in the alley.
Quotations
"Man, being reasonable, must get drunk;"
"The best of Life is but intoxication" [Lord Byron Don Juan]
"It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk" [Euripides The Cyclops]
"Two things a man cannot hide: that he is drunk, and that he is in love" [Antiphanes]
"Man, being reasonable, must get drunk;"
"The best of Life is but intoxication" [Lord Byron Don Juan]
"It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk" [Euripides The Cyclops]
"Two things a man cannot hide: that he is drunk, and that he is in love" [Antiphanes]
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drunk
adjectivenoun
1. A person who is habitually drunk:
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Translations
opilýopilec
fuldfulderikalkoholikerberusetdranker
ebria
alkashalkohoolikjoodik
مست
juoppohumalainen
pijanpijanac
iszikittas
drukkinn manneskja; fyllibyttadrukkinn, ölvaîur
酔った酔っぱらい
술취한주정뱅이
ebriaebriumebrius
girtasgirtogirtumasgirtuoklisvairavimas esant neblaiviam
apreibisapskurbisdzērājspiedzēries
opilecpijan
pijanpijanec
fullfyllo
เมาคนเมา
người say rượusay rượu
drunk
[drʌŋk]A. PP of drink
B. ADJ (drunker (compar) (drunkest (superl)))
1. → borracho, tomado (LAm)
drunk and disorderly behaviour (Jur) → embriaguez f y alteración f del orden público
he was arrested for being drunk and disorderly → lo detuvieron por embriaguez y alteración del orden público
to get drunk → emborracharse
to get sb drunk → emborrachar a algn
to be drunk on whisky → estar borracho de whisky
to get drunk on wine → emborracharse de vino
to be as drunk as a lord or a skunk → estar borracho como una cuba
drunk and disorderly behaviour (Jur) → embriaguez f y alteración f del orden público
he was arrested for being drunk and disorderly → lo detuvieron por embriaguez y alteración del orden público
to get drunk → emborracharse
to get sb drunk → emborrachar a algn
to be drunk on whisky → estar borracho de whisky
to get drunk on wine → emborracharse de vino
to be as drunk as a lord or a skunk → estar borracho como una cuba
C. N → borracho/a m/f
D. CPD drunk driver N → conductor(a) m/f en estado de embriaguez
drunk driving N (esp US) = drink-driving
drunk driving N (esp US) = drink-driving
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
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drunk
ptp of drinkadj (+er)
(= inebriated) → betrunken; he was slightly drunk → er war leicht betrunken or etwas angetrunken; to get drunk → betrunken werden (on von); (on purpose) → sich betrinken (on mit); to be drunk on wine → von Wein betrunken sein; to be as drunk as a lord or skunk (inf) → blau wie ein Veilchen sein (inf); to be drunk and disorderly (Jur) → durch Trunkenheit öffentliches Ärgernis erregen
(fig) to be drunk with or on success → vom Erfolg berauscht sein; to be drunk with or on power/freedom/joy → im Macht-/Freiheits-/Freudenrausch sein
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drunk
[drʌŋk]1. pp of drink
2. adj → ubriaco/a (fig) → ebbro/a, ubriaco/a
to get drunk → ubriacarsi
to arrest sb for being drunk and disorderly → arrestare qn per ubriachezza molesta
to get drunk → ubriacarsi
to arrest sb for being drunk and disorderly → arrestare qn per ubriachezza molesta
3. n → ubriaco/a
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
drunk
(draŋk) verbsee drink.
adjective overcome by having too much alcohol. A drunk man fell off the bus; drunk with success.
noun a drunk person, especially one who is often drunk.
ˈdrunkard (-kəd) noun a person who is often drunk. I'm afraid he's turning into a drunkard.
ˈdrunken adjective1. drunk. drunken soldiers.
2. caused by being drunk. a drunken sleep.
drunken ˈdriving noun (also drunk driving) driving under the influence of alcohol.
ˈdrunkenness nounKernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
drunk
→ ثَمِل, سَكْران opilec, opilý fuld, fulderik betrunken, Betrunkener μεθυσμένος borracho, ebrio humalainen, juoppo ivre, ivrogne pijan, pijanac ubriaco 酔った, 酔っぱらい 술취한, 주정뱅이 dronken, dronkenlap full, fyllik pijak, pijany bêbado пьяный full, fyllo เมา, คนเมา sarhoş người say rượu, say rượu 喝醉了, 醉酒者Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
drunk
n. borracho-a, ebrio-a.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
drunk
(pp de drink) adj borracho; to get — emborracharse; n (person) borracho -cha mfEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.