Drunk vs. Ossified — What's the Difference?

Past participle of drink.

To change into bone; become bony.

Intoxicated with alcoholic liquor to the point of impairment of physical and mental faculties.

To become set in a rigidly conventional pattern

Caused or influenced by intoxication.

To convert (a membrane or cartilage, for example) into bone.

Overcome by strong feeling or emotion

To mold into a rigidly conventional pattern.

A drunkard.

Having undergone the process of ossification transformation into bone.

A bout of drinking.

(figurative) Inflexible, old-fashioned.

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

Drunk.

Or frequently in a state of intoxication.

Simple past tense and past participle of ossify

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

Changed to bone or something resembling bone; hardened by deposits of mineral matter of any kind; - said of tissues.

Or saturated with moisture or liquid.

Changed into bone; hardened by deposits of mineral matter;

One who is intoxicated with alcohol.

Set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs;

A habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.

A drinking-bout; a period of drunkenness.

A drunken state.

Inflection of drink

(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).

Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.

A drunken condition; a spree.

A chronic drinker

Someone who is intoxicated

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

As if under the influence of alcohol;