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1. Stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)
   "a noisy crowd of drunk sailors";
   - intoxicated, inebriated, inebriate
    
2. Elated or emboldened as if under the influence of alcohol
   "drunk with excitement";
   - intoxicated
    
3. Very drunk
   "I had travelling money and got blind drunk in the bar downstairs";
   - besotted [archaic], blind drunk, blotto, crocked [N. Amer], cockeyed, fuddled, loaded [N. Amer], pie-eyed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet, out of it [Brit], trolleyed [Brit], mullered [Brit], tanked up, blitzed, stinko, fried [N. Amer], lit, steaming, bladdered [Brit], liquored up [N. Amer], legless [Brit], trashed, stewed, stonkered [Austral, NZ], paralytic [Brit], three sheets to the wind, pickled, bombed, wasted, juiced [N. Amer], hammered, bevvied [Brit], pixillated, squiffed, half-seas-over [Brit]

1. A chronic drinker
   - drunkard, rummy, sot, inebriate, wino, tosspot
    
2. Someone who is intoxicated

1. Take in liquids
   "The children like to drink soda"; "The patient must drink several litres each day";
   - imbibe
    
2. Consume alcohol
   "We were up drinking all night";
   - booze, fuddle
    
3. Propose a toast to
   "Let's drink to the New Year";
   - toast, pledge, salute, wassail [archaic]
    
4. Be fascinated or spell-bound by; pay close attention to
   "The mother drinks in every word of her son on the stage";
   - drink in
    
5. Drink excessive amounts of alcohol; be an alcoholic
   "The husband drinks and beats his wife";
   - tope [archaic]

Derived forms: drunkest, drunks, drunker

See also: bacchanal, bacchanalian, bacchic, beery, bibulous, boozy, carousing, doped, drink down, drink up, drugged, drunken, excited, high, hopped-up, mellow, merry, narcotised [Brit], narcotized, orgiastic, potty, sottish, stoned, tiddley, tiddly [Brit], tipsy

Type of: absorb, consume, drinker, engross, engulf, fete, fête, habituate, have, honor [US], honour [Brit, Cdn], imbiber, immerse, ingest, juicer, plunge, reward, soak, soak up, sponge, steep, take, take in, toper, use

Encyclopedia: Drunk