Drunken

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Drink \Drink\ (dr[i^][ng]k), v. i. [imp. {Drank} (dr[a^][ng]k),
     formerly {Drunk} (dr[u^][ng]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.
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              Gird thyself, and serve me, till have eaten and
              drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink.
                                                    --Luke xvii.
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              He shall drink of the wrath the Almighty. --Job xxi.
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              Drink of the cup that can not cloy.   --Keble.
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     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.
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              And they drank, and were merry with him. --Gem.
                                                    xliii. 34.
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              Bolingbroke always spoke freely when he had drunk
              freely.                               --Thackeray.
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     {To drink to}, to salute in drinking; to wish well to, in the
        act of taking the cup; to pledge in drinking.
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              I drink to the general joy of the whole table,
              And to our dear friend Banquo.        --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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              Drunken men imagine everything turneth round. --
                                                    Bacon.
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     2. Saturated with liquid or moisture; drenched.
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              Let the earth be drunken with our blood. -- Shak.
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     3. Pertaining to, or proceeding from, intoxication.
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              The drunken quarrels of a rake.       -- Swift.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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 gentleman holding each other up";
             "sottish behavior" [syn: {bibulous}, {boozy}, {sottish}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  50 Moby Thesaurus words for "drunken":
     addicted to drink, addled, beery, bemused, besotted, bibacious,
     bibulous, blind drunk, crapulent, crapulous, dizzy, drenched,
     drinking, drunk, far-gone, flustered, fou, full, gay, giddy,
     given to drink, glorious, happy, in liquor, inebriate, inebriated,
     inebrious, intoxicated, jolly, lightheaded, maudlin, mellow, merry,
     muddled, nappy, reeling, shikker, sodden, sotted, sottish,
     swilling, swimming, tiddly, tippling, tipsy, toping, turned around,
     under the influence, vertiginous, winebibbing