boozed

verb

past tense of booze
as in drank
to partake excessively of alcoholic beverages he went out boozing with his friends on his 21st birthday

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Recent Examples of boozed Kara crashes in, all boozed up, having returned to a planet where their super-metabolism doesn’t work. — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 20 May 2026 Aggie is boozed enough to think this is funny rather than disturbing. — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
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drank
Verb
  • Three years later, censured by his Senate colleagues, ostracized by his party, and ignored by the press, McCarthy drank himself to death, a broken man at the age of 48.
    — Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 10 July 2026
  • On the day of the murders, he was said to have drank more than a quart of vodka.
    — Dan Sullivan, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 July 2026
Definition of drank

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“Boozed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boozed. Accessed 18 Jul. 2026.

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