1. Intoxicated with, or as with, strong drink; inebriated; drunken; — never used attributively, but always
predicatively; as, the man is drunk
Be not drunk with wine, where in is excess.
Eph. v. 18.
Drunk with recent prosperity.
Macaulay. 2. Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
I will make mine arrows drunk with blood.
Deut. xxxii. 42. Drunk
(Drunk), n. A drunken condition; a spree. [Slang]
Drunkard
(Drunk"ard) n. [Drunk + - ard.] One who habitually drinks strong liquors immoderately; one
whose habit it is to get drunk; a toper; a sot.
The drunkard and glutton shall come to poverty.
Prov. xxiii. 21. Drunken
(Drunk"en) a. [AS. druncen, prop., that has drunk, p. p. of drincan, taken as active. See
Drink, v. i., and cf. Drunk.]
1. Overcome by strong drink; intoxicated by, or as by, spirituous liquor; inebriated.
Drunken men imagine everything turneth round.
Bacon. 2. Saturated with liquid or moisture; drenched.
Let the earth be drunken with our blood.
Shak. 3. Pertaining to, or proceeding from, intoxication.
The drunken quarrels of a rake.
Swift. Drunkenhead
(Drunk"en*head) n. Drunkenness. [Obs.]
Drunkenly
(Drunk"en*ly), adv. In a drunken manner. [R.] Shak.
Drunkenness
(Drunk"en*ness), n.
1. The state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic liquor; intoxication; inebriety; — used of the casual
state or the habit.
The Lacedemonians trained up their children to hate drunkenness by bringing a drunken man into their
company.
I. Watts. 2. Disorder of the faculties, resembling intoxication by liquors; inflammation; frenzy; rage.
Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.
South. Syn. — Intoxication; inebriation; inebriety. — Drunkenness, Intoxication, Inebriation. Drunkenness
refers more to the habit; intoxication and inebriation, to specific acts. The first two words are extensively
used in a figurative sense; a person is intoxicated with success, and is drunk with joy. "This plan of
empire was not taken up in the first intoxication of unexpected success." Burke.
Drunkenship
(Drunk"en*ship, Drunk"ship), n. The state of being drunk; drunkenness. [Obs.] Gower.