drunken

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Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
15
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈdɹʌŋkən/

Definition of drunken

7 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (archaic, form-of, participle, past)past participle of drink
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verb

  1. (archaic, form-of, participle, past)past participle of drink
  2. (ambitransitive)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.”

adj

  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. (derogatory)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. (obsolete)Saturated with liquid
  5. (obsolete)Saturated with liquid
    “drunken noodles; drunken duck; drunken fried rice”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

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”).

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