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drunk·en

(drŭng′kən)

adj.

1. Delirious with or as if with strong drink; intoxicated.

2. Habitually drunk.

3. Of, involving, or occurring during intoxication: a drunken brawl. See Usage Note at drunk.

4. Cooked with wine or another alcoholic beverage: drunken mushrooms.

drunk′en·ly adv.

drunk′en·ness n.

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drunken

(ˈdrʌŋkən)

adj

1. intoxicated with or as if with alcohol

2. frequently or habitually drunk

3. (prenominal) caused by or relating to alcoholic intoxication: a drunken brawl.

ˈdrunkenly adv

ˈdrunkenness n

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

drunk•en

(ˈdrʌŋ kən)

adj.

1. intoxicated; drunk.

2. given to drunkenness.

3. pertaining to, caused by, or marked by intoxication: a drunken quarrel.

[earlier form of drunk]

drunk′en•ly, adv.

drunk′en•ness, n.

usage: See drunk.

drunk

– drunken

Drunk is the past participle of the verb 'drink'.

See drink

1. 'drunk' used as an adjective

Drunk is also an adjective. If someone is drunk, they have drunk too much alcohol and are not in complete control of their behaviour.

The colonel was so drunk that he could barely get his words out.

She was being driven home by an extremely drunk young man.

When someone drinks too much alcohol and loses control of their behaviour, you say that they get drunk.

He had decided that he was never going to get drunk again.

We all got happily drunk.

2. 'drunken'

Drunken has the same meaning as 'drunk' but it is only used in front of a noun. You do not say that someone 'is drunken'.

...stiffer penalties for drunken drivers.

Groups of drunken hooligans smashed windows and threw stones.

You use drunken rather than 'drunk' to describe the behaviour of people who are drunk.

...a long drunken party.

I descended into a deep drunken sleep.

You also use drunken rather than 'drunk' to describe people who are often drunk.

Where will she go? Back to her drunken husband in Canada?

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Adj.

drunken - given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol; "a bibulous fellow"; "a bibulous evening"; "his boozy drinking companions"; "thick boozy singing"; "a drunken binge"; "two drunken gentlemen holding each other up"; "sottish behavior"

bibulous, boozy, sottish

drunk, inebriated, intoxicated - stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol); "a noisy crowd of intoxicated sailors"; "helplessly inebriated"

drunken

adjective

1. intoxicated, smashed (slang), drunk, flying (slang), bombed (slang), wasted (slang), hammered (slang), steaming (slang), wrecked (slang), out of it (slang), boozing (informal), blitzed (slang), pissed (Brit., Austral., & N.Z. slang), lit up (slang), bladdered (slang), under the influence (informal), tippling, toping, red-nosed, legless (informal), paralytic (informal), steamboats (Scot. slang), off your face (slang), zonked (slang), bibulous, blotto (slang), inebriate, out to it (Austral. & N.Z. slang), sottish, rat-arsed (taboo slang), Brahms and Liszt (slang), bevvied (dialect), (gin-)sodden Drunken yobs smashed shop windows.

2. boozy, dissipated (informal), riotous, debauched, dionysian, orgiastic, bacchanalian, bacchic, saturnalian A loud, drunken party was raging nearby.

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drunken

adjective

Stupefied, excited, or muddled with alcoholic liquor:

besotted, crapulent, crapulous, drunk, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, sodden, tipsy.

Informal: cockeyed, stewed.

Slang: blind, bombed, boozed, boozy, crocked, high, lit (up), loaded, looped, pickled, pixilated, plastered, potted, sloshed, smashed, soused, stinking, stinko, stoned, tight, zonked.

Idioms: drunk as a skunk, half-seas over, high as a kite, in one's cups, three sheets in the wind.

Translations

بِسَبَب السُّكْرسَكْران، ثَمِل

opileckýopilýzpůsobený opilostí

berusetfuldfuldemands-

alkoholisiert betrunken

borracho causado por embriaguez ebrioso

ivre

ittas állapotban

drukkinnölvunar-, áfengis-

da ubriaco ebbro

fylle-

пьяный

sarhoşsarhoşluğun verdiği

酒醉引起的醉的

drunken

[ˈdrʌŋkən] ADJ

1. (= intoxicated) [person] → borracho; [brawl, orgy] → de borrachos; [night, evening] → de borrachera; [violence] → provocado por el alcohol; [voice] → de borracho, de cazallero
a drunken old man → un viejo borracho
her drunken husband → el borracho de su marido
drunken driving → conducir or (LAm) manejar en estado de embriaguez
a drunken party → una juerga
in a drunken rage → en un ataque de furia provocado por el alcohol
in a drunken state → borracho
in a drunken stupor → flotando en los vapores del alcohol

2. (fig) (= crooked) at a drunken angle → torcido

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

drunken

[ˈdrʌŋkən] adj

(= drunk) [person] → ivre, soûl(e)

[stupor] → causé(e) par l'alcool; [fight, brawl, behaviour, rage] → d'ivrogne drunken drivingdrunken driving n (US) → conduite f en état d'ivresse

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

drunken

adj person → betrunken; (habitually) → versoffen (inf); state, voice → betrunken; night, evening, party → feuchtfröhlich; a drunken man → ein Betrunkener; drunken violence → Gewalttätigkeiten pl → unter Alkoholeinfluss; a drunken brawl → eine Schlägerei zwischen Betrunkenen; a drunken argument → ein Streit m → im Suff (inf); in a drunken rage or fury → in einem Wutanfall im Vollrausch; in a drunken stupor → im Vollrausch, sinnlos betrunken

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

drunken

[ˈdrʌŋk/ən] adj (intoxicated) → ubriaco/a; (habitually) → alcolizzato/a; (brawl, orgy) → di ubriachi; (rage) → provocato/a dall'alcol; (voice) → da ubriaco
drunken driving → guida in stato di ebbrezza

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

drunk

(draŋk) verb

see drink.

adjective

overcome by having too much alcohol. A drunk man fell off the bus; drunk with success.

noun

a drunk person, especially one who is often drunk.

ˈdrunkard (-kəd) noun

a person who is often drunk. I'm afraid he's turning into a drunkard.

ˈdrunken adjective

1. drunk. drunken soldiers.

2. caused by being drunk. a drunken sleep.

drunken ˈdriving noun

(also drunk driving) driving under the influence of alcohol.

ˈdrunkenness noun

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When, however, this took place with the ugliest man, Zarathustra stood there like one drunken: his glance dulled, his tongue faltered and his feet staggered.

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A DRUNKEN Man was lying in the road with a bleeding nose, upon which he had fallen, when a Pig passed that way.

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There was a bridge on the road that ran out of Winesburg north to Lake Erie and the drunken boy made his way along the road to the bridge.

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The captain came half round, and regarded him with the dull and solemn eyes of a drunken man.

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Further, I said, has not a drunken man also the spirit of a tyrant?

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And yet as no nation produces so many drunken quarrels, especially among the lower people, as England (for indeed, with them, to drink and to fight together are almost synonymous terms), I would not, methinks, have it thence concluded, that the English are the worst-natured people alive.

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His excitement, of course, increased greatly at sight and touch of the individual for whose blood he had been making application: he struggled and struck with fury--but a drunken man is no match for a sober one; and, even in his normal state, Pelet's worn out frame could not have stood against my sound one.

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Could they enter any of its doors while the whole party of Indians was plunged in a drunken sleep, or was it safer to attempt to make a hole in the walls?

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This drunken Caderousse has made me lose the thread of my sentence."

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