Drunken

Quick meaning: Drunken is a verb meaning Drunk, in the state of intoxication after having drunk an alcoholic beverage.

Meaning

Drunk, in the state of intoxication after having drunk an alcoholic beverage.

More Meanings

1. (derogatory) Given to habitual excessive use of alcohol.
2. Characterized by or resulting from drunkenness.
3. (ambitransitive) To make or become drunk or drunken; to intoxicate.
4. (archaic, still occasionally in juxtaposition with eaten) past participle of drink
5. (obsolete) Saturated with liquid

Example Sentences

a drunken display of crude exuberance

The dreamy coloring of the land is just too drunkening.

Yea, upon a stoned couch and drunkened unto death upon the bittered draught of Rome!

What shall we do with a drunken sailor? […] / Put him in the longboat and make him bail her / Early in the morning.

Word Forms

• drunkens
• drunkening
• drunkened

Synonyms for drunken

Depending on context, synonyms include drunk, inebriated, intoxicated, bibulous, boozy, sottish.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include inebriated, intoxicated, drunk, boozy, sottish, bibulous.

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