Spiked vs Drunk - What's the difference?
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As adjectives the difference between spiked and drunk is that spiked is (of a beverage) containing alcohol or drugs, often without the informing those who partake while drunk is in a state of intoxication caused by the consumption of excessive alcohol, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages. As verbs the difference between spiked and drunk is that spiked is ( spike) while drunk is . As a noun drunk is a habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.
spiked English
Adjective
( en adjective)
(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.
Having spikes.
Of a graph or trend that has rapidly reached a maximum.
Synonyms
* (having spikes): peaked, spiky
Derived terms
* spiked sample
* spiked value
Verb
(head)
(spike)
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drunk English
Adjective
( er)
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.
- Drunk with power he immediately ordered a management reshuffle.
* Macaulay
- drunk with recent prosperity
Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
* Bible, Deuteronomy xxxii. 42
- I will make mine arrows drunk with blood.
Synonyms
* (intoxicated from alcohol) blitzed, drunken, ebrious, hammered, pissed, tipsy, wasted, smashed; see also
Derived terms
(terms derived from drunk)
* drunkard
* drunk as a skunk
* drunk driver
* drunk driving
* drunken
* drunkenness
* punch drunk
* drunk tank
Noun
( en noun)
A habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.
* 1971 , William S. Burroughs, The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead , page 10
- Another drunk is sleeping in dangerous proximity to a brush fire.
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.
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!
Derived terms
* cheap drunk
* expensive drunk
* good drunk
Synonyms
* (habitual drinker) alcoholic, drunkard, pisshead, piss artist, sot; see also
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