different between spiked vs drunk

English

Adjective

spiked (comparative more spiked, superlative most spiked)

1. (of a beverage) Containing alcohol or drugs, often without the informing those who partake.

   The large punch bowl has the special spiked punch, the small punch bowl is for the kids.

2. Having spikes.
3. Of a graph or trend that has rapidly reached a maximum.

Synonyms

• (having spikes): peaked, spiky

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Verb

spiked

1. simple past tense and past participle of spike

English

Etymology

From Middle English drunke, drunken, ydrunke, ydrunken, from Old English druncen, ?edruncen (“drunk”), from Proto-Germanic *drunkanaz, *gadrunkanaz (“drunk; drunken”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *drinkan? (“to drink”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian dronken, West Frisian dronken, Dutch dronken, gedronken, German Low German drunken, bedrunken, German getrunken, betrunken, Swedish drucken, Icelandic drukkinn.

Pronunciation

• enPR: dr?ngk, IPA^(key): /d???k/, /d?????k/
• Rhymes: -??k

Adjective

drunk (comparative drunker, superlative drunkest)

1. Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.
   • 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 557:

     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, until it became strong wine; and every day I used to drink of it, to comfort and sustain me under my fatigues with that from froward and obstinate fiend; and as often as I drank myself drunk, I forgot my troubles and took new heart.

2. Habitually or frequently in a state of intoxication.
3. (usually followed by with or on) Elated or emboldened.

   Drunk with power he immediately ordered a management reshuffle.
4. Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.

Synonyms

• (intoxicated from alcohol): See Thesaurus:drunk
• (habitually of frequently intoxicated from alcohol): boozy, sottish
• (saturated with moisture): See Thesaurus:wet
• (slightly intoxicated):

tipsy, buzzed

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Noun

drunk (plural drunks)

1. One who is intoxicated with alcohol.
2. A habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.

   Synonyms: alcoholic, drunkard, pisshead, piss artist, sot; see also Thesaurus:drunkard

3. A drinking-bout; a period of drunkenness.
   • 1858, "A Scarcity of Jurors—Cangemi's Third Trial," New York Times, 8 Jun., p. 4:

     Gen. G. had been on a long drunk from July last until Christmas.

4. A drunken state.
   • 2006, Patrick McCabe, Winterwood, Bloomsbury 2007, p. 10:

     Here – help yourself to another drop there, Redmond! By the time we've got a good drunk on us there'll be more crack in this valley than the night I pissed on the electric fence!

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Verb

drunk

1. past participle of drink
2. (Southern US) simple past tense of drink

Anagrams

• Knurd, knurd