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get drunk

get drunk verb: to intoxicate oneself with alcohol. (This entry is a translation hub.).

Verb

get drunk (third-person singular simple present gets drunk, present participle getting drunk, simple past got drunk, past participle (UK) got drunk or (US) gotten drunk)

  1. (intransitive) To intoxicate oneself with alcohol. (This entry is a translation hub.)
    • I'm going out tonight to get drunk.
    • Would I take someone here for a first date? No. Would I go here for a cheap bite? Also no, but would I go here to get drunk on the cheap? Absolutely.2023 July 21, Billie Schwab Dunn, “I Tried Wetherspoons Food for the First Time-I Feared I'd Get Scurvy...”, in Daily Star
  2. (transitive) To make drunk. (This entry is a translation hub.)
    • We got him drunk by spiking the punch.
    Synonyms:
    bedrink

get drunk meaning in Hindi, Urdu and Arabic

get drunk in Hindi

to intoxicate oneself with alcohol
टल्ली होना ṭallī honā
transitive; to make drunk
टल्ली करना ṭallī karnā

get drunk in Urdu

to get drunk; intoxicate
نشہ کرنا naśā karnā

get drunk in Arabic

to intoxicate oneself with alcohol
سَكِرَ sakira, ثَمِلَ ṯamila
transitive; to make drunk
أَسْكَرَ ʔaskara

Synonyms of get drunk

Forms of get drunk

third-person singular presentgets drunk
present participlegetting drunk
pastgot drunk
past participle UKgot drunk
past participle USgotten drunk

Questions about get drunk

What does get drunk mean?
Get drunk means to intoxicate oneself with alcohol. (This entry is a translation hub.).
What is get drunk in Hindi?
Get drunk in Hindi is टल्ली होना (ṭallī honā), टल्ली करना (ṭallī karnā). See Get drunk meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is get drunk?
Get drunk is a verb.
What is the past tense of get drunk?
The past tense of get drunk is got drunk.

Words near get drunk in the dictionary

  1. get down to business
  2. get down to cases
  3. get down to nuts and bolts
  4. get down to the nitty-gritty
  5. get dressed
  6. get drunk
  7. get even
  8. get even or get even worse
  9. get eyes on
  10. get freaky
  11. get fresh

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Adapted from Wiktionary: get drunk (page history and authors); نشہ کرنا (Urdu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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