drunk

About 10.03 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.
2. adjective (Can we verify this sense?) Habitually or frequently in a state of intoxication.
3. adjective Elated or emboldened.

   Drunk with power, he immediately ordered a management reshuffle.

4. adjective Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
5. adverb While drunk.

   He was arrested for driving drunk.

6. noun One who is intoxicated with alcohol.
7. noun A habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.
8. noun A person whose behaviour when drunk tends to be of a specified kind.

   He's a talkative drunk; three beers in and he's chattering away about everything.

Similar words

inebriate blotto drunken tipsy boozy inebriated intoxicated soused squiffy drunkard

Often followed by

and with in on to or driving at as

Word family

drink drunker drunkest drunks