drink vs drunk
Definitions
noun
- the act of swallowing
- any liquid suitable for drinking
- any large deep body of water
- a single serving of a beverage
- the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess
verb
- consume alcohol
- be fascinated or spell-bound by; pay close attention to
- drink excessive amounts of alcohol; be an alcoholic
- propose a toast to
- take in liquids
Examples
Laura Wade's Posh, timed to open as the Tories edged into power in May 2010, reminded us just what we were in for: overprivileged hooligans in drinking-society blazers who trash a pub as thoughtlessly as they will trash the country.
People at MSFC have told me over drinks that this study concluded that EELV are human ratable but they were going to do what Griffin wanted.
My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards.
Definitions
noun
- a chronic drinker
- someone who is intoxicated
adjective
- stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)
- as if under the influence of alcohol
Examples
Two workboats, ancient battered things with rusting plates, shouldered into it from either side like a couple of drunks supporting a comatose companion.
He was frequently drunk and died when she was young.
Paraguay tea, which they call matte, as I mentioned before, is always drunk twice a day: this is brought upon a large silver salver, with four legs raised upon it, to receive a little cup made out of a small calabash or gourd, and tipped with silver.
