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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 [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
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), 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.
Translations
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 manun viejo borracho
her drunken husbandel borracho de su marido
drunken drivingconducir or (LAm) manejar en estado de embriaguez
a drunken partyuna juerga
in a drunken rageen un ataque de furia provocado por el alcohol
in a drunken stateborracho
in a drunken stuporflotando en los vapores del alcohol
2. (fig) (= crooked) at a drunken angletorcido
drunken [ˈdrʌŋkən] adj
(= drunk) [person] → ivre, soûl(e)
[stupor] → causé(e) par l'alcool; [fight, brawl, behaviour, rage] → d'ivrogne drunken driving
drunken driving n (US)conduite f en état d'ivresse
drunken
adj personbetrunken; (habitually) → versoffen (inf); state, voicebetrunken; night, evening, partyfeuchtfröhlich; a drunken manein Betrunkener; drunken violenceGewalttätigkeiten plunter Alkoholeinfluss; a drunken brawleine Schlägerei zwischen Betrunkenen; a drunken argumentein Streit mim Suff (inf); in a drunken rage or furyin einem Wutanfall im Vollrausch; in a drunken stuporim Vollrausch, sinnlos betrunken
drunken [ˈdrʌŋkn] 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


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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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