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drunken

verb
/ˈdɹʌŋkən/

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”).

  1. derived from *drinkaną✻ — “to drink”
  2. inherited from *drunkanaz✻ — “drunken”
  3. inherited from druncen
  4. inherited from drunken

Definitions

  1. past participle of drink

  2. 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.[…]

  3. Given to habitual excessive use of alcohol.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. 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.

    2. Saturated with liquid

    3. To make or become drunk or drunken

      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.

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Derived

drelfie, drunken boxing, drunken chicken, drunkendom, drunken driving, Drunken Knight Opening, drunkenly, drunkenness, drunken noodles, drunkenship, drunken shrimp, drunkensome, drunken trees, drunken words are sober thoughts, nondrunken, overdrunken, undrunken

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for drunken. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA