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Drunken
Definitions
- 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."
- 2 Given to habitual excessive use of alcohol. derogatory
- 3 Characterized by or resulting from drunkenness.
"a drunken display of crude exuberance"
- 4 Saturated with liquid obsolete
- 5 Saturated with liquid; Applied to various spicy stir-fried dishes in Asian cuisine. obsolete
"drunken noodles; drunken duck; drunken fried rice"
- 1 given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol wordnet
- 1 past participle of drink archaic, form-of, participle, past
- 2 To make or become drunk or drunken; to intoxicate. ambitransitive
"Yea, upon a stoned couch and drunkened unto death upon the bittered draught of Rome!"
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”).
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”).
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.
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