# drunken
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdɹʌŋkən/
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* Rhymes: -ʌŋkən

### Etymology 1

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”).

#### Verb

drunken
* (archaic, still occasionally in juxtaposition with eaten) past participle of drink

#### Adjective

drunken (comparative more drunken, superlative most drunken)
* Drunk, in the state of intoxication after having drunk an alcoholic beverage.
** a. 1830, Drunken Sailor (traditional sea shanty)
    What shall we do with a drunken sailor? […] / Put him in the longboat and make him bail her / Early in the morning.
** 2014 December 23, Dallas S. Paskell, Medieval‎, Author House, →ISBN, page 389: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. […]
* (derogatory) Given to habitual excessive use of alcohol.
* Characterized by or resulting from drunkenness.
    a drunken display of crude exuberance
** 1945 September and October, C. Hamilton Ellis, “Royal Trains—V”, in Railway Magazine, page 252: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.
* (obsolete) Saturated with liquid
** Applied to various spicy stir-fried dishes in Asian cuisine.
    drunken noodles; drunken duck; drunken fried rice

##### Synonyms

* drunk; see also Thesaurus:drunk

##### Derived terms

* drelfie
* drunken boxing
* drunken chicken
* drunkendom
* drunken driving
* drunkenhead
* Drunken Knight Opening
* drunkenly
* drunkenness
* drunken noodles
* drunkenship
* drunken shrimp
* drunkensome
* drunken trees
* drunken words are sober thoughts
* nondrunken
* overdrunken
* undrunken

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From Middle English dronknen, drunkenen, drunknen, from Old English druncnian (“to drown; get drunk”), from Proto-Germanic *drunkanōną (“to get drunk”), from Proto-Germanic *drunkanaz (“drunk; intoxicated”). Cognate with Norwegian drukne, drukna, Icelandic drukna.

#### Verb

drunken (third-person singular simple present drunkens, present participle drunkening, simple past and past participle drunkened)
* (ambitransitive) To make or become drunk or drunken; to intoxicate.
** 1917, Patience Worth, The Sorry Tale, page 153:Yea, upon a stoned couch and drunkened unto death upon the bittered draught of Rome!
** 1985, Kay Dreyfus, Percy Aldridge Grainger, Farthest North of Humanness: Letters, page 31:The dreamy coloring of the land is just too drunkening.
** 2011, William Peters, Good Morning my Beloved Family, 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.

## Low German
### Etymology

From drinken, cognate to English drunken, Dutch dronken.

### Adjective

drunken (comparative drunkener, superlative drunkenst)
* drunk, drunken

#### Synonyms

* duun
* bedrunken
* anduunt
* dick
* drietendick
* besapen
* betüdelt
* vull
* benusselt