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say it: druhngk
drunk is a noun and adjective meaning "a chronic drinker". It carries 4 recorded senses.
someone who is intoxicated
stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)
“a noisy crowd of intoxicated sailors”
“helplessly inebriated”
as if under the influence of alcohol
“felt intoxicated by her success”
“drunk with excitement”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for drunk come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.