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DRUNKEN
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol
Example:
sottish behavior
Synonyms:
bibulous; boozy; drunken; sottish
Classified under:
Similar:
drunk; gone; inebriated; intoxicated; ripped (stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol))
Derivation:
drunkenness (a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol)
Context examples:
She had nothing to dread from midnight assassins or drunken gallants.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
They limp, they stagger like drunken people, they cry under their breaths; and all the time they say, 'On! on! We will go on!' They are like crazy people.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those drunken sallies from which he never came back.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They lived on this as long as it lasted; and then her husband bought a fresh lot of ware, and she sat herself down with it in the corner of the market; but a drunken soldier soon came by, and rode his horse against her stall, and broke all her goods into a thousand pieces.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
I attempted to accompany them and proceeded a short distance from the house, but my head whirled round, my steps were like those of a drunken man, I fell at last in a state of utter exhaustion; a film covered my eyes, and my skin was parched with the heat of fever.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
He was drunken with unguessed power and felt that he could do anything.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
“Surely you are not going to set me to fight a drunken man!” said he.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Several half-drunken English archers, attracted, as the squires had been, by their singular appearance, were facing towards them, and peering at them through the dim light.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
At the same time, I observed, around both of them, splashes of dark blood upon the planks and began to feel sure that they had killed each other in their drunken wrath.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
She recognized the drunken brute that he was, and would have nothing to do with him.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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