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English Dictionary: drunken	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for drunken
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
drunken adj 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" Synonym(s): bibulous, boozy, drunken, sottish
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drink \Drink\ (dr[icr][nsm]k), v. i. [imp. {Drank} (dr[acr][nsm]k), formerly {Drunk} (dr[ucr][nsm]k); & p. p. {Drunk}, {Drunken} (-'n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Drinking}. Drunken is now rarely used, except as a verbal adj. in sense of habitually intoxicated; the form drank, not infrequently used as a p. p., is not so analogical.] [AS. drincan; akin to OS. drinkan, D. drinken, G. trinken, Icel. drekka, Sw. dricka, Dan. drikke, Goth. drigkan. Cf. {Drench}, {Drunken}, {Drown}.] 1. To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink from a spring. Gird thyself, and serve me, till have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink. --Luke xvii. 8. He shall drink of the wrath the Almighty. --Job xxi. 20. Drink of the cup that can not cloy. --Keble. 2. To quaff exhilarating or intoxicating liquors, in merriment or feasting; to carouse; to revel; hence, to lake alcoholic liquors to excess; to be intemperate in the [?]se of intoxicating or spirituous liquors; to tipple. --Pope. And they drank, and were merry with him. --Gem. xliii. 34. Bolingbroke always spoke freely when he had drunk freely. --Thackeray. {To drink to}, to salute in drinking; to wish well to, in the act of taking the cup; to pledge in drinking. I drink to the general joy of the whole table, And to our dear friend Banquo. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drunken \Drunk"en\, a. [AS. druncen, prop., that has drunk, p. p. of drincan, taken as active. See {Drink}, v. i., and cf. {Drunk}.] 1. Overcome by strong drink; intoxicated by, or as by, spirituous liquor; inebriated. Drunken men imagine everything turneth round. -- Bacon. 2. Saturated with liquid or moisture; drenched. Let the earth be drunken with our blood. -- Shak. 3. Pertaining to, or proceeding from, intoxication. The drunken quarrels of a rake. -- Swift.