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drunken Definition

drunken (druŋkən)

transitive verb, intransitive verb

Archaic drink

Etymology: ME dronken < OE druncen, pp. of drincan, to drink

adjective

  1. intoxicated or habitually intoxicated; drunk
  2. caused by, characterized by, or occurring during intoxication drunken driving

drunken Related Forms
drunk·enly adverb drunk·en·ness noun
drunken Synonyms

drunken

modif.

drunk, intoxicated, inebriated; see drunk. See syn. study at drunk.

drunken Usage Examples

Preposition: in

  • night: For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.

Modifies a noun

  • stupor: Ben Jonson is awakened from his drunken stupor by a herd of wildebeest falling down the stairs.
  • yob: We have drunken yobs like the best of ' em.
  • brawl: A full scale drunken brawl was in progress, no doubt.
  • lout: The force of the throw sent the vamp spinning into three drunken louts walking by.
  • reveler: Police are also bracing themselves for hordes of drunken revelers.
  • antic: Many affairs have begun due to drunken antics at an office party.

Modifying Another Word

  • slightly: Lots of support coming from a slightly drunken granddad - which was ace!
  • very: Not much sign of them the night we were there, just a lot of very drunken Scots.
  • not: The word Amethyst comes from Greek and means " not drunken " .
  • even: When there is work to be done even drunken, turbulent or negligent men are given employment if they have the requisite physical vigor.
  • just: Gap years can be about more than just drunken nights out and shrinking bank accounts.
  • so: O Shamsi Tabriz, I am so drunken in this world, That except of drunkenness and revelry I have no tale to tell.

Used with adjective complement

  • have: You are less co-ordinated and can have slurred speech when you have drunken on average 4 pints.
drunken Quotes

I who have cursed The drunken officer of British rule, how choose Between this Africa and the English tongue I love? Betray them both, or give back what they give? How can I face such slaughter and be cool? How can I turn from Africa and live?

—Walcott, Derek Alton

: Do not let him touch you! It is not true That drunken men cannot beget, And if he touch he must beget And you must bear his murderer. Deaf! Both deaf!

—Yeats,W(illiam) B(utler)

They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits'end.

—Bible (Old Testament)

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