(a.) Intoxicated with, or as with, strong drink; inebriated; drunken; -- never used attributively, but always predicatively; as, the man is drunk (not, a drunk man).
(a.) Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
(n.) A drunken condition; a spree.
Example Sentences:
(1) I haven't had to face anyone like the man who threatened to call the police when he decided his card had been cloned after sharing three bottles of wine with his wife, or the drunk woman who became violent and announced that she was a solicitor who was going to get this fucking place shut down – two customers Andrew had to deal with on the same night.
(2) The major part of water was drunk during feeding time.
(3) The leadership of 212 chapters of an organization called Mothers Against Drunk Driving was surveyed to obtain data on chapter emphasis, satisfaction, future involvement and perception of most effective countermeasures.
(4) We hope that the court of appeal in reaching its judgment understands that consent cannot happen when a woman is too drunk to consent.
(5) Big Red football parties had a reputation for being wildly drunk.
(6) "I would stand there and watch him every night, unless I was too drunk that I couldn't stand.
(7) A DWI conviction may also stimulate the drunk driver to seek treatment for alcoholism.
(8) Alcohol campaigns largely target younger women, yet the risk of breast cancer – which peaks in the 60-64 age group – increases by about 7% for every unit drunk per day.
(9) Tory toffs repelling undesirable immigrants, providing better schools, using welfare reform as a pathway to work, clearing vandals, yobs and drunks from the streets and standing up to our masters in Brussels would be very popular, and the word would soon be forgotten.
(10) But living in modern Britain feels like being one of a family of anxious, squabbling children whose parents have abandoned us to get drunk at the casino.
(11) There is a half-drunk glass of white wine abandoned on the coffee table at his Queensferry home - the Browns had friends around for dinner the previous night - and a stack of children's books and board games piled lopsidedly under a Christmas tree now shedding needles with abandon.
(12) No one would deny that Thomas drank too much or that he could be a troublesome drunk.
(13) Thirty-one males (17%) and 18 females (9%) reported getting drunk at least twice a month and having five or more drinks on each drinking occasion.
(14) Student days and getting drunk, our worst dates, how close we are to our parents, sausages, setting up Lindy Hop dance classes for gay people.
(15) "But I've never been drunk in my life," she says, to clarify).
(16) But Micheline Mwendike, 29, likened the concert to getting drunk to escape problems.
(17) My mum thought it was a bad idea, because the chefs were nuts, always drunk.
(18) "When beer is cheaper than water, it's just too easy for people to get drunk on cheap alcohol at home before they even set foot in the pub," the PM wrote in the foreword.
(19) Only recall of wine, the least frequently drunk beverage, was more highly correlated with current than with original consumption.
(20) Blood glucose remained unchanged during and after exercise when E was drunk.
Inebriated
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Inebriate
Example Sentences:
(1) It begins with the origins of treatment in the self-help temperance movement of the 1830s and 1840s and the founding of the first inebriate homes, tracing in the United States the transformation of these small, private, spiritually inclined programs into the medically dominated, quasipublic inebriate asylums of the late 19th century.
(2) Both of the alcohol-containing drinks caused mild-to-moderate inebriation, but gin and slimline tonic had no significant effect on either blood-glucose or plasma-insulin levels.
(3) A very inebriated Emin mumbled incoherently that "no real people" would be watching and that she wanted to go be with her mum and friends.
(4) Inebriate asylums took inspiration from insane asylums and were large, public, coercive and isolated in rural areas.
(5) Between September 1986 and July 1988 the cases and their controls were interviewed by one and the same investigator using a questionnaire on drinking habits: quantity and type of beverage consumed, time of onset and frequency of use and whether they had manifested symptoms of inebriation or of alcohol dependence previously.
(6) Prohibition destroyed what public inebriate institutions existed.
(7) Frequency of beer, wine, and spirits drinking and inebriation by alcohol were associated with serum lipids and blood pressure in 14,667 free-living men and women aged 20 to 54 years.
(8) These patients cannot be identified upon presentation, however, and these data cannot support routine use of gastric emptying in the detoxification of inebriated patients.
(9) In multiple wound fatalities, alcohol inebriation was less common both among victims and perpetrators.
(10) The success of the orange revolution has promoted a kind of democratic inebriation, in which random demonstrations around the world are each sold as a new dawn of freedom in the Ukrainian tradition.
(11) It is noted that early research portrayed alcoholics as occupationally unstable but was based on biased samples of alcoholic psychotics and arrested public inebriates.
(12) We also conclude that drugs, particularly the benzodiazepines or cannabinoids, may be commonly encountered in drunken drivers, suspected of being inebriated by ethanol but no other toxicants.
(13) In 1971 there was a change in legislation permitting police to take public inebriates to detoxication centers.
(14) Because it causes immediate pain when taken into the mouth, strong mineral acid is less often swallowed than corrosive alkali, but psychotic, inebriated or determined individuals may consume lethal amounts.
(15) Neutrophils isolated from blood samples of healthy abstaining donors, which had been exposed to ethanol or to plasma from inebriated patients for 16 to 20 h, showed no loss of elastase activity or superoxide production.
(16) Most will be aware of the grotty details of the case by now, with Evans emerging as a “big night out!” type of sexual predator, who viewed inebriated young women as fair game.
(17) France's Europe-1 radio aired an interview with the passenger, identified only by her first name Daniele, in which she said that Depardieu appeared inebriated and announced: "I need to piss, I need to piss."
(18) This paper analyses two contemporaneous types of 19th-century North American inebriate institutions and attempts by their promoters to develop a public treatment system.
(19) This chapter recounts what is known about the international development of treatment institutions for inebriates in the century before 1940.
(20) The observation that those animals that drank their daily fluid in 10 min demonstrated higher peak blood-alcohol levels than the distributed animals supports the conclusion that a centrally mediated aversive state of inebriation must be present to produce a conditioned aversion.