drunkverb
uk/drʌŋk/us/drʌŋk/past participle of drink
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Drinking
- consume
- drank
- drink
- drink (sth) up
- drinker
- drinking
- drinking water
- knock
- knock back (sth)
- overindulge
- partake
- partook
- quench
- slurp
- sup
- swig
- swill
- taste
- wash
- wash sth down
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drunkadjective [ usually after verb ]
uk/drʌŋk/us/drʌŋk/B2 unable to speak or act in the usual way because of having had too much alcohol:
I got completely drunk at my sister's wedding.
I'd had a couple of glasses of wine but I certainly wasn't drunk.
He came home last night blind (= extremely) drunk.
drunk and disorderly specialized
the crime of behaving badly in public after drinking too much alcohol
drunk with power
having a strong and unreasonable feeling of being able to control other people
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- From her slow, deliberate speech I guessed she must be drunk.
- I got a bit drunk and made a fool of myself.
- They came back from the pub roaring drunk.
- William was lying spread-eagled on the grass, blind drunk.
- He came home drunk and vomited all over the kitchen floor.
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Drunkenness & sobriety
- a drop too much (to drink) idiom
- alcoholic
- battered
- be as high as a kite idiom
- beer goggles
- binge drinking
- blasted
- bombed
- inebriate
- inebriated
- influence
- intoxicate
- intoxicated
- muzzy
- sloshed
- sober (sb) up
- sobriety
- sot
- soused
- whacked
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Controlling and being in charge
Idiom(s)
drunk as a lord
drunknoun [ C ]
uk/drʌŋk/us/drʌŋk/also drunkard disapprovinga person who drinks large amounts of alcohol very often and is unable to stop
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Addiction
- -aholic
- addicted
- alcoholism
- be a slave to sth idiom
- chemical dependency
- compulsive
- cure
- cure sb of sth
- dependence
- detoxification
- dipsomania
- dipsomaniac
- drunkard
- dry out
- habit-forming
- kick
- pledge
- the DTs
- wean sb off sth
- withdrawal symptoms
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Drunkenness & sobriety