Drunken Meaning
/ˈdɹʌŋkən/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbpast participle of drink
adjDrunk, in the state of intoxication after having drunk an alcoholic beverage.
Sentence Examples
The drunken man awoke to find himself in prison.
The drunken man couldn't walk straight.
Synonyms & Antonyms
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ sailor stumbled off the ship and fell into the harbor.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ man awoke to find himself in prison.
Word Origin & History
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”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"I ask now to put faces to those names and remove all doubt that the songs I've heard sung in your honor were not a drunken bard's attempt to make a few extra coins. This mission is dire and the reward shall fit you well.[…]"
— 2014 December 23, Dallas S. Paskell, Medieval, Author House, →ISBN, page 389:
"Surviving pictures of the accident show the two locomotives leaning at drunken angles, still covered with flags and evergreens—a mixture of comedy and tragedy."
— 1945 September and October, C. Hamilton Ellis, “Royal Trains—V”, in Railway Magazine, page 252:
"Yea, upon a stoned couch and drunkened unto death upon the bittered draught of Rome!"
— 1917, Patience Worth, The Sorry Tale, page 153:
"The dreamy coloring of the land is just too drunkening."
— 1985, Kay Dreyfus, Percy Aldridge Grainger, Farthest North of Humanness: Letters, page 31:
"Dogma drunkens the Spirit, and while we indulge in our stupor, it robs us of our innate Spiritually Divine and Creative acuity . . . Love alone provides us with the much needed restorative properties of redemption."
— 2011, William Peters, Good Morning my Beloved Family, page 31:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ sailor stumbled off the ship and fell into the harbor.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ man awoke to find himself in prison.