drunk
stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,182 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 8,077 times across 175,112 chapters — 0.004% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol) also: intoxicated, inebriated, ripped, gone a noisy crowd of intoxicated sailorshelplessly inebriated
- as if under the influence of alcohol also: intoxicated felt intoxicated by her successdrunk with excitement
noun
- a chronic drinker also: drunkard, rummy, sot, inebriate, wino
- someone who is intoxicated
drunk in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Don't you know that Jack was drunk last night!
Plays : First Series · John Galsworthy · Chapter 1
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She says ('scuse me, Teacher)--she says 'he must be' ('scuse me) 'drunk.'
Little Citizens: The Humours of School Life · Myra Kelly · Chapter 1
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I judged I would saw out and leave that night if pap got drunk enough, and I reckoned he would.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 06 · Mark Twain · Chapter 1
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Every week regularly, on the day when she took the clothes to Paris (it was on Wednesdays), she came home drunk.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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I have seen Sheridan drunk, too, with all the world; but his intoxication was that of Bacchus, and Porson's that of Silenus.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement — No. 474 · Various · Chapter 1