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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Drink \Drink\ (dr[i^][ng]k), verb (used without an object) [imp. {Drank} (dr[a^][ng]k), formerly {Drunk} (dr[u^][ng]k); & p. p. {Drunk}, {Drunken} (-'n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Drinking}. Drunken is now rarely used, except as a verbal adjective in sense of habitually intoxicated; the form drank, not infrequently used as a p. p., is not so analogical.] [AS. drincan; akin to OS. drinkan, D. drinken, G. trinken, Icel. drekka, Sw. dricka, Dan. drikke, Goth. drigkan. Cf. {Drench}, {Drunken}, {Drown}.]
1. To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink from a spring.
Gird thyself, and serve me, till have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink. --Luke xvii. 8.
He shall drink of the wrath the Almighty. --Job xxi. 20.
Drink of the cup that can not cloy. --Keble.
2. To quaff exhilarating or intoxicating liquors, in merriment or feasting; to carouse; to revel; hence, to lake alcoholic liquors to excess; to be intemperate in the ?se of intoxicating or spirituous liquors; to tipple. --Pope.
And they drank, and were merry with him. --Gem. xliii. 34.
Bolingbroke always spoke freely when he had drunk freely. --Thackeray.
{To drink to}, to salute in drinking; to wish well to, in the act of taking the cup; to pledge in drinking.
I drink to the general joy of the whole table, And to our dear friend Banquo. --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Drunken \Drunk"en\, adjective [AS. druncen, prop., that has drunk, p. p. of drincan, taken as active. See {Drink}, verb (used without an object), and cf. {Drunk}.]
1. Overcome by strong drink; intoxicated by, or as by, spirituous liquor; inebriated.
Drunken men imagine everything turneth round. -- Bacon.
2. Saturated with liquid or moisture; drenched.
Let the earth be drunken with our blood. -- Shak.
3. Pertaining to, or proceeding from, intoxication.
The drunken quarrels of a rake. -- Swift.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
drunken
adjective: given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol; "a bibulous fellow"; "a bibulous evening"; "his boozy drinking companions"; "thick boozy singing"; "a drunken binge"; "two drunken gentleman holding each other up"; "sottish behavior" [syn: {bibulous}, {boozy}, {sottish}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
50 Moby Thesaurus words for "drunken": addicted to drink, addled, beery, bemused, besotted, bibacious, bibulous, blind drunk, crapulent, crapulous, dizzy, drenched, drinking, drunk, far-gone, flustered, fou, full, gay, giddy, given to drink, glorious, happy, in liquor, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, intoxicated, jolly, lightheaded, maudlin, mellow, merry, muddled, nappy, reeling, shikker, sodden, sotted, sottish, swilling, swimming, tiddly, tippling, tipsy, toping, turned around, under the influence, vertiginous, winebibbing
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