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drunken

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drunk·en  (drngkn)
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.

drunken·ly adv.
drunken·ness n.

drunken
Adjective
1. intoxicated with alcohol
2. habitually drunk
3. caused by or relating to alcoholic intoxication: a drunken argument
drunkenly adv
drunkenness n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.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"
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) steaming (slang) wrecked (slang) out of it (slang) boozing (informal) blitzed (slang) lit up (slang) bladdered (slang) under the influence (informal) tippling, toping, red-nosed, legless (informal) paralytic (informal) steamboats Scot. (slang) zonked (slang) bibulous, blotto (slang) inebriate, out to it Austral., N.Z. (slang) sottish, bevvied (dialect) (gin-)sodden
adjective 2. boozy, dissipated (informal) riotous, debauched, dionysian, orgiastic, bacchanalian, bacchic, saturnalian
Translations
Spanish drunken [ˈdrʌŋkən] adjborracho
French drunken [ˈdrʌŋkən] drunk adjivre, soûl(e); [rage, stupor] → ivrogne, d'ivrogne;
drunken driving → conduite f en état d'ivresse

German drunken [ˈdrʌŋkən] drunk adjbetrunken;
(party) → feucht-fröhlich;
drunken driving drunk → Trunkenheit f am Steuer

Italian drunken [ˈdrʌŋkən] adjubriaco/a, da ubriaco;
drunken driving → guida in stato di ebbrezza

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Clatter of hoofs, clinking of weapons, shouts from the drunken brawlers, and high laughter of women, they all rose up, like the mist from a marsh, out of the crowded streets of the dim-lit city.
A DRUNKEN Man was lying in the road with a bleeding nose, upon which he had fallen, when a Pig passed that way.
The insufferable stench from the pot- houses, which are particularly numerous in that part of the town, and the drunken men whom he met continually, although it was a working day, completed the revolting misery of the picture.
 
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