Drunk vs. Inebriated

Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.

Habitually or frequently in a state of intoxication.

(usually followed by with or on) Elated or emboldened.

Example: ‘Drunk with power he immediately ordered a management reshuffle.’;

Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.

One who is intoxicated with alcohol.

A habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.

A drinking-bout; a period of drunkenness.

A drunken state.

inflection of drink||past|part

(Southern US) drink

Intoxicated with, or as with, strong drink; inebriated; drunken; - never used attributively, but always predicatively; as, the man is drunk (not, a drunk man).

Example: ‘Be not drunk with wine, where in is excess.’; ‘Drunk with recent prosperity.’;

Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.

Example: ‘I will make mine arrows drunk with blood.’;

A drunken condition; a spree.

a chronic drinker

someone who is intoxicated

stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol);

Example: ‘a noisy crowd of intoxicated sailors’; ‘helplessly inebriated’;

as if under the influence of alcohol;

Example: ‘felt intoxicated by her success’; ‘drunk with excitement’;

Behaving as though affected by alcohol including exhilaration, and a dumbed or stupefied manner.

simple past tense and past participle of inebriate

under the influence of alcohol; intoxicated; drunk.

stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol);

Example: ‘a noisy crowd of intoxicated sailors’; ‘helplessly inebriated’;