Drinking vs Drunk - What's the difference?
drinking | drunk |
An act or session by which drink is consumed, especially alcoholic beverages.
* 1853 , Susan Bogert Warner, The wide, wide world (page 372)
In a state of intoxication caused by the consumption of excessive alcohol, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.
(usually followed by with or on) Elated or emboldened.
* Macaulay
Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
* Bible, Deuteronomy xxxii. 42
A habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.
* 1971 , William S. Burroughs, The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead , page 10
A drinking-bout; a period of drunkenness.
* 1858 , "A Scarcity of Jurors—Cangemi's Third Trial," New York Times , 8 Jun., p. 4:
A drunken state.
* 2006 , Patrick McCabe, Winterwood , Bloomsbury 2007, p. 10:
As verbs the difference between drinking and drunk
is that drinking is while drunk is .As nouns the difference between drinking and drunk
is that drinking is an act or session by which drink is consumed, especially alcoholic beverages while drunk is a habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.As an adjective drunk is
in a state of intoxication caused by the consumption of excessive alcohol, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.drinking
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- At home there were other studies and much reading; many tea drinkings on the lawn, and even breakfastings, which she thought pleasanter still.
drunk
English
Adjective
(er)- Drunk with power he immediately ordered a management reshuffle.
- drunk with recent prosperity
- I will make mine arrows drunk with blood.
Synonyms
* (intoxicated from alcohol) blitzed, drunken, ebrious, hammered, pissed, tipsy, wasted, smashed; see alsoDerived terms
(terms derived from drunk) * drunkard * drunk as a skunk * drunk driver * drunk driving * drunken * drunkenness * punch drunk * drunk tankNoun
(en noun)- Another drunk is sleeping in dangerous proximity to a brush fire.
- Gen. G. had been on a long drunk from July last until Christmas.
- 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!