• enPR: drŭngk, IPA: /dɹʌŋk/, /d͡ʒɹʌŋk/

drunk (comparative drunker, superlative drunkest)

1. Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.
   • 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 557:

     So I took a great dry gourd and, cutting open the head, scooped out the inside and cleaned it; after which I gathered grapes from a vine which grew hard by and squeezed them into the gourd, till it was full of the juice. Then I stopped up the mouth and set in the sun, where I left it for some days, until it became strong wine; and every day I used to drink of it, to comfort and sustain me under my fatigues with that from froward and obstinate fiend; and as often as I drank myself drunk, I forgot my troubles and took new heart.

2. Habitually or frequently in a state of intoxication.
3. (usually followed by with or on) Elated or emboldened.

   Drunk with power he immediately ordered a management reshuffle.

   • 18, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 15, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify ), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323 ↗:

4. Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Deuteronomy 32:42 ↗:

     I will make mine arrows drunk with blood.

• (intoxicated from alcohol) See Thesaurus:drunk
• (habitually of frequently intoxicated from alcohol) boozy, sottish
• (saturated with moisture) See Thesaurus:wet

• French: ivre, soûl, (informal) bourré, (Quebec, informal) paqueté
• German: betrunken, besoffen, dicht, zu, blau, voll
• Italian: ubriaco, avvinazzato, ebbro, sborniato, sbronzo
• Portuguese: bêbado, bêbedo, ébrio, alcoolizado
• Russian: пья́ный
• Spanish: borracho, ebrio, pedo (informal), tomado (Latin America), beodo, embriagado, bebido, alcoholizado (formal)

• Italian: ubriaco, ebbro
• Portuguese: bêbado, bêbedo
• Russian: опьянённый
• Spanish: borracho, ebrio

drunk (plural drunks)

1. One who is intoxicated with alcohol.
2. A habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.

   Synonyms: alcoholic, drunkard, pisshead, piss artist, sot, Thesaurus:drunkard

3. A drinking-bout; a period of drunkenness.
   • 1858, "A Scarcity of Jurors—Cangemi's Third Trial," New York Times, 8 Jun., p. 4:

     Gen. G. had been on a long drunk from July last until Christmas.

4. A drunken state.
   • 2006, Patrick McCabe, Winterwood, Bloomsbury 2007, p. 10:

     Here – help yourself to another drop there, Redmond! By the time we've got a good drunk on us there'll be more crack in this valley than the night I pissed on the electric fence!

• Russian: пья́ный
• Spanish: borracho, ebrio

• French: ivrogne, buveur, soûlard
• German: Trinker, Säufer
• Italian: ubriacone, ubriacona, alcolizzato, beone, ubriaco, spugna, alcolista, avvinazzato
• Portuguese: bêbado, bêbedo, beberrão, bebum
• Russian: пья́ница
• Spanish: borracho, bebedor, tomador (Latin America)

• Italian: ubriachezza, ebbrezza

1. past participle of drink#English|drink
2. (Southern US) simple past tense of drink