drunkest
drunkest is the superlative form of drunk.
drunkest is the second-person singular simple past indicative of drink.
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
Meaning of drink
Verb
drink (third-person singular simple present drinks, present participle drinking, simple past drank or (Southern US) drunk or (nonstandard) drinked, past participle drunk or (chiefly archaic) drunken or (dialectal) drank or (all, nonstandard, archaic or obsolete) drinked or drinken or dranken)
- To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.
- He drank the water I gave him.
- To consume the liquid contained within (a bottle, glass, etc.).
- Jack drank the whole bottle by himself.
- To consume alcoholic beverages.
- You've been drinking, haven't you?
- Synonyms:
- drink alcohol, booze, hit the bottle, hit the sauce
- To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
- Let the purple violets drink the stream.1697, Virgil, “The Fourth Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
- To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.
- My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words / Of that tongue's utterance.c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
- To toast (someone or something) with a drink, honour; to wish well (see drink to), especially
- Drink to lofty hopes that cool —
Visions of a perfect State : Drink we, last, the public fool,
Frantic love and frantic hate.1842, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Vision of Sin”, in The Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., published 1884, →OCLC, part iv, page 131
- Drink to lofty hopes that cool —
Questions about drunkest
- What is drunkest the superlative form of?
- Drunkest is the superlative form of drunk.
Words near drunkest in the dictionary
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