"This substitution of drank for drunk is thought to have started as a way to avoid the association of drunk with intoxication. That thought seems reasonable given the social emphasis on morality in the past; however, saying ""I had drank too much wine"" doesn't hide the fact that you did. Nonetheless, this deliberate avoidance of the word is likely to persist today. Drink is the present tense, drank is the simple past, and drunk is the past participle. Drank is the simple past tense of the verb drink, which means to swallow liquid. Drunk is the past participle form of the same verb. Drunk is used with helping verbs, and it functions as another part of speech: adjective."

Arun Karthik

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