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drunk
[ not usually before noun ] having drunk too much alcohol so that your behaviour and mental processes are affected:
• Gary was too drunk to remember what had happened that night. • I just hope they don’t get drunk and start fighting. • drunk driving • The police are going to crack down on drunk drivers.
tipsy/merry
[ not before noun ] slightly drunk:
• After the second glass of wine I was feeling a little tipsy.
pissed
[ not usually before noun ] British English informal drunk – this word is very common in spoken British English, but it is not polite:
• Don’t listen to him – he’s pissed.
intoxicated
[ not before noun ] formal drunk:
• He was arrested for driving while intoxicated.
paralytic/legless
[ not before noun ] British English informal extremely drunk:
• Don’t give Dave any more to drink -- he’s already legless. • They became totally paralytic and abusive.
drunken
[ only before noun ] especially written used to describe someone who is drunk or their behaviour. Drunken is mainly used in written English and is always used before a noun. Don’t say ‘he is drunken’. Say he is drunk:
• A drunken man was found lying outside a shop door. • We found him lying by the roadside in a drunken stupor (= almost unconscious as a result of being drunk ) .
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adj. VERBS be, feel, look, sound I was beginning to feel very drunk. | get Harry went out and got drunk last night. | get sb, make sb Andrew decided to try and get Sharon drunk. The wine had made him drunk. ADV. blind, completely, extremely, hideously, hopelessly, horribly, really, roaring, very He came home blind drunk, as usual. | almost (often figurative) She was almost drunk with all these new impressions. | fairly, half, a little, pretty, quite, rather, slightly He was still half drunk. PREP. with (figurative) drunk with fatigue
Oxford Collocations Dictionary