drunken

adjective

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Pronunciation: /ˈdɹʌŋkən/

adj

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”).

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.[…]”
Given to habitual excessive use of alcohol.
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.”
Saturated with liquid
Saturated with liquid
“drunken noodles; drunken duck; drunken fried rice”

verb

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.

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.”