drunk
/dɹʌŋk/ adjective B1- Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.
- Habitually or frequently in a state of intoxication.
- Elated or emboldened. · Drunk with power, he immediately ordered a management reshuffle.
- Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
Comparative drunker · Superlative drunkest
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“Hold your tongue, you fool!—what should you know about it?—why, you were drunk!”
“I’ve seen many a drunk chap in my time,” he said, “but never anyone so cryin’ drunk as that cove.
“He was an uncommon drunk sort o’ man,” he said.
He had to pretend to be drunk in order to allay the suspicions which might have been aroused by his appearance at the gate.
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