drunker
drunker is the comparative form of drunk.
Meaning of drunk
Adjective
drunk (comparative drunker, superlative drunkest)
- Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.
- So I took a great dry gourd and, cutting open the head, scooped out the inside and cleaned it; after which I gathered grapes from a vine which grew hard by and squeezed them into the gourd, till it was full of the juice. Then I stopped up the mouth and set in the sun, where I left it for some days...1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “Night 557”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a...
- Habitually or frequently in a state of intoxication.
- Elated or emboldened.
- Drunk with power, he immediately ordered a management reshuffle.
- Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
- I will make mine arrows drunk with blood.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 32:42
- Synonyms:
- wet
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Questions about drunker
- What is drunker the comparative form of?
- Drunker is the comparative form of drunk.
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