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

[druhngk] / drʌŋk /




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The researchers acknowledged that the study relied on participants recalling what they had eaten and drunk, which can introduce measurement errors.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

"The caller wasn't drunk, sounded sensible and said, get onto the guards, tell them to check the back routes or back roads and then repeats three times: Omagh, Omagh, Omagh."

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 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

I think Mr. Hofacket would have stood there all day and drunk in the praise he’d earned during this strangest of undertakings.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

But nearby police officers who weren’t part of the production thought they were just two drunks having fun and yelled at them to get down.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

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

Big Bol was a bouncer at the Crow Club, perfectly suited to tossing out drunks and wasters, but too heavy on his feet to be much use when it came to a real tussle.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

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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