Meaning

5 senses
  1. One who is intoxicated with alcohol.

    пья́ныйpʹjányj, пья́наяpʹjánaja

    someone who is intoxicated

  2. A habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.

    Trinker, Trinkerin, Säufer

    пья́ницаpʹjánica, алка́шalkáš, алка́шкаalkáška

    п'я́ницяpʺjánycja, пия́кpyják, пия́каpyjáka

    a chronic drinker

  3. 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.

  4. A drinking bout; a period of drunkenness.

  5. A drunken state.

Examples

2007 sentences
  1. I have drunk all my milk.

    Я випив усе своє молоко.

    ruЯ выпил всё своё молоко.

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  2. Tom gets drunk almost every evening.

    Том напивається майже кожного вечора.

    ruТом напивается почти каждый вечер.

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  3. Do you want to get drunk?

    Ви хочете напитися?

    ruТы хочешь напиться?

    deWillst du dich betrinken?

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  4. Tom is too drunk to drive.

    Том занадто п'яний, щоб керувати авто.

    ruТом слишком пьян, чтобы садиться за руль.

    deTom ist zu betrunken zum Fahren.

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  5. They're all drunk except for Tom.

    Вони всі п'яні, за винятком Тома.

    ruВсе, кроме Тома, пьяны.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
habitual drinker:
Русский
By meaning 2
one who is drunk:
habitual drinker:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
habitual drinker:

Origin

From Middle English drunke, drunken, ydrunke, ydrunken, from Old English druncen, ġedrunce

From Middle English drunke, drunken, ydrunke, ydrunken, from Old English druncen, ġedruncen (“drunk”), from Proto-Germanic *drunkanaz, *gadrunkanaz (“drunk; drunken”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *drinkaną (“to drink”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian dronken, West Frisian dronken, Dutch dronken, gedronken, German Low German drunken, bedrunken, German trunken,

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Forms

plural: drunks
Singulardrunk
Pluraldrunks

regular

Synonyms

60 synonyms

Word family

7 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • too drunk to
  • was too drunk
  • drunk last night
  • got drunk
  • drunk to drive
  • a little drunk
  • was really drunk
  • was very drunk
  • as drunk as
  • drunk so much
  • already drunk
  • be drunk but

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
drunk — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto