drunken
verbadjectiveverbcommon in dialogue
- //ˈdɹʌŋkən//
Drunk, in the state of intoxication after having drunk an alcoholic beverage.
verb
- 1
Also a form of drinkarchaicpast participle of drink
Etymology
From Middle English drunken, ydronken, idrunken, from Old English druncen, ġedruncen (“drunk; drunken”), from Proto-Germanic *drunkanaz (“drunken”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *drinkaną (“to drink”), equivalent to drink + -en. Cognate with West Frisian dronken (“drunk; drunken”), Dutch dronken (“drunk; drunken”), German betrunken (“drunk; drunken”), Swedish drucken (“drunk; drunken”).
adjective
- 1
Drunk, in the state of intoxication after having drunk an alcoholic beverage.
What shall we do with a drunken sailor? […] / Put him in the longboat and make him bail her / Early in the morning.
I ask now to put faces to those names and remove all doubt that the songs I've heard sung in your honor were not a drunken bard's attempt to make a few extra coins. This mission is dire and the reward shall fit you well.[…]
- 2
Given to habitual excessive use of alcohol.
- 3
Characterized by or resulting from drunkenness.
a drunken display of crude exuberance
Surviving pictures of the accident show the two locomotives leaning at drunken angles, still covered with flags and evergreens—a mixture of comedy and tragedy.
- 4
obsoleteSaturated with liquid.
- 5
obsoleteSaturated with liquid. Applied to various spicy stir-fried dishes in Asian cuisine.
drunken noodles; drunken duck; drunken fried rice
verb
- 1
To make or become drunk or drunken; to intoxicate.
Yea, upon a stoned couch and drunkened unto death upon the bittered draught of Rome!
The dreamy coloring of the land is just too drunkening.
Dogma drunkens the Spirit, and while we indulge in our stupor, it robs us of our innate Spiritually Divine and Creative acuity . . . Love alone provides us with the much needed restorative properties of redemption.
Etymology
From Middle English dronknen, drunkenen, drunknen, from Old English druncnian (“to drown; get drunk”), from Proto-Germanic *drunkanōną (“to get drunk”), from Proto-Germanic *drunkanaz (“drunk; intoxicated”). Cognate with Norwegian drukne, drukna, Icelandic drukna.
Forms
- comparative
- more drunken
- superlative
- most drunken
- past tense
- drunkened
- past participle
- drunkened
- present participle
- drunkening
- third person singular
- drunkens
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