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Can the word "drunk" be used as past tense of "to drink"? Can you use it as in, "She had drunk a glass of water."?
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Your example sentence was in past perfect tense, so the past participle is fine.

If you used it in a past tense sentence like this:

She drunk a glass of wine.

Then I would say it was bad English.
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