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  • past participle of drink.
  • past tense form of drink.
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drunk

[druhngk] / drʌŋk /




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In addition, dietary information came from participants' own recollections of what they had eaten and drunk.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

Patel also directed Wilkins’ security detail to escort one of her allegedly drunk friends home after a night out in Nashville, MS Now reported in December 2025.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Testing by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation showed that two people had drunk from the bottle, leaving a mixture of their DNA.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

One day, equity markets are drunk on the prospect that artificial intelligence will cure cancer, improve on Shakespeare and make airplanes take off on time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

Once upon a time, the gods had drunk wine from it.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

The tertulias at Alemana became the space where artists, journalists, and drunks overlapped freely.

From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026

Otto von Bismarck’s special providence for “fools, drunks, and the United States of America” may be coming to the aid of the current incumbent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026

"Both my daughters are young doctors and they tell me that hospital campuses are overrun by anti-social elements, drunks and touts," she says.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2024

The leader of a grass roots group supporting servicemen and women, Brigadier General pilot Dariusz Wronski, said soldiers were really outraged by the film, which he said showed them as drunks and thugs.

From Reuters ● Sep. 20, 2023

Some nights are silent; not a motor car turning within earshot; no drunks or restless babies crying for their mothers and Alice opens any window she Wants to and hears nothing at all.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison

The pool women involved themselves, displaying a remarkable capacity to seem drunker in a crisis, despite the fact that they weren’t drinking, as if drawing on unseen reserves.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 25, 2019

“The Golden Globes are to the Oscars what Kim Kardashian is to Kate Middleton. Bit louder, bit trashier, bit drunker, and more easily bought.”

From The Guardian ● Jan. 7, 2018

Ravick had been in power too long, and he was drunker on it than Bish Ware ever got on Baldur honey-rum.

From Four-Day Planet by H. Beam Piper

But in times such as these, an awards broadcast can serve some purpose beyond distraction — even a show whose claim to fame is catching celebrities at their drunkest and loosest.

From Salon ● Jan. 6, 2020

O villain! thy lips ate scarce wiped since thou drunkest last.

From McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey


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