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[syn: bibulous, boozy, drunken, sottish]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Drink \Drink\ (dr[i^][ng]k), v. i. [imp. Drank (dr[a^][ng]k),
formerly Drunk (dr[u^][ng]k); & p. p. Drunk, Drunken
(-'n); p. pr. & vb. n. Drinking. Drunken is now rarely
used, except as a verbal adj. in sense of habitually
intoxicated; the form drank, not infrequently used as a p.
p., is not so analogical.] [AS. drincan; akin to OS. drinkan,
D. drinken, G. trinken, Icel. drekka, Sw. dricka, Dan.
drikke, Goth. drigkan. Cf. Drench, Drunken, Drown.]
1. To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other
purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in
satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink from a spring.
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Gird thyself, and serve me, till have eaten and
drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink.
--Luke xvii.
8.
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He shall drink of the wrath the Almighty. --Job xxi.
20.
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Drink of the cup that can not cloy. --Keble.
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2. To quaff exhilarating or intoxicating liquors, in
merriment or feasting; to carouse; to revel; hence, to
lake alcoholic liquors to excess; to be intemperate in the
?se of intoxicating or spirituous liquors; to tipple.
--Pope.
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And they drank, and were merry with him. --Gem.
xliii. 34.
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Bolingbroke always spoke freely when he had drunk
freely. --Thackeray.
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To drink to, to salute in drinking; to wish well to, in the
act of taking the cup; to pledge in drinking.
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I drink to the general joy of the whole table,
And to our dear friend Banquo. --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
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Drunken men imagine everything turneth round. --
Bacon.
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2. Saturated with liquid or moisture; drenched.
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Let the earth be drunken with our blood. -- Shak.
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3. Pertaining to, or proceeding from, intoxication.
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The drunken quarrels of a rake. -- Swift.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
drunken
adj 1: given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol; "a
bibulous fellow"; "a bibulous evening"; "his boozy
drinking companions"; "thick boozy singing"; "a drunken
binge"; "two drunken gentlemen holding each other up";
"sottish behavior" [syn: bibulous, boozy, drunken,
sottish]