| 单词 | drunk |
| 释义 | drunk (once / 154 pages) nadj If you consume so much alcohol that you become inebriated, you are drunk. If you do it too often, you may become a drunk, which is another, blunter, word for "alcoholic." For the last 600 years or so, the word drunk has been used to describe someone who is intoxicated. Someone who's drunk from alcohol might be unsteady on their feet, slur their speech, or not be able to think straight. But you also can be drunk on things like power, passion or hope. This kind of drunk involves strong feelings or intoxicating emotions instead of one too many beers. WORD FAMILYdrunk: drunken, drunker, drunkest, drunks+/drunken: drunkener, drunkenest, drunkenly, drunkenness/drunkenness: drunkennesses USAGE EXAMPLESStrengthening Iowa’s ignition interlock laws, which are among the weakest in the nation, according to Mothers Against Drunk Driving. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Art Brown, president of the Utah chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, told the local Fox affiliate the group would not support Thurston’s proposal. Los Angeles Times(Jan 01, 2017) Traditionally, the ashes are then drunk dissolved in champagne. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) 1n someone who is intoxicated Hypo|Hyper drunk-and-disorderly someone arrested on the charge of being drunk and disorderly drinker, imbiber, juicer, toper a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess) 2n a chronic drinker Syn|Hypo|Hyper drunkard, inebriate, rummy, sot, wino alcoholic, alky, boozer, dipsomaniac, lush, soaker, souse a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually drinker, imbiber, juicer, toper a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess) 3adj as if under the influence of alcohol drunk with excitement Syn intoxicated excited in an aroused state 4adj stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol) Syn|Ant inebriated, intoxicated bacchanal, bacchanalian, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic used of riotously drunken merrymaking beerysmelling of beer pottyslightly intoxicated bibulous, boozy, drunken, sottishgiven to or marked by the consumption of alcohol doped, drugged, narcotised, narcotizedunder the influence of narcotics half-seas-overBritish informal for `intoxicated' high, mellowslightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana) hopped-up, stonedunder the influence of narcotics sober not affected by a chemical substance (especially alcohol) cold sober, stone-sobertotally sober drug-freecharacteristic of a person not taking illegal drugs or of a place where no illegal drugs are used dry, teetotalpracticing complete abstinence from alcoholic beverages uninebriated, unintoxicatednot inebriated |
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