Spiked vs Drunk - What's the difference?
spiked | drunk |
(of a beverage) Containing alcohol or drugs, often without the informing those who partake.
Having spikes.
Of a graph or trend that has rapidly reached a maximum.
(spike)
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 adjectives the difference between spiked and drunk
is that spiked is 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 past tense of spike while drunk is past participle of lang=en.As a noun drunk is
a habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.spiked
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The large punch bowl has the special spiked punch, the small punch bowl is for the kids.
Synonyms
* (having spikes): peaked, spikyDerived terms
* spiked sample * spiked valueVerb
(head)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!
