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单词 drunken
释义 drunk·en
I. \-kən sometimes -kəŋ\ adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English druncen, from past participle of drincan to drink — more at drink
1. : drunk 1
 < when he was drunken, he was vulgar and silly — Katherine A. Porter >
 < reeled like a drunken giant — H.G.Wells >
2. obsolete : saturated with liquid or moisture : drenched
 < let the earth be drunken with our blood — Shakespeare >
3.
 a. : given to habitual excessive use of alcoholic drinks
  < we can not afford to have poor people anyhow, whether they be lazy or busy, drunken or sober — G.B.Shaw >
 b. : of, relating to, attended by, or characterized by intoxication
  < they come from … broken homes, drunken homes — P.B.Gilliam >
  < a drunken cry >
  < not in a drunken triumph but with awe — S.T.Coleridge >
 c. : resulting from or as if from alcoholic intoxication
  < drunken stupor >
  < the diver is subject to wild, drunken delusions — Rachel L. Carson >
4. : unsteady or lurching as if from alcoholic intoxication
 < insects which have walked on films of DDT soon begin to stagger in a drunken manner — Atlantic Monthly >
5. : drunk 2
 < still drunken with hope and despair — Eve Langley >
6. of a screw thread : having inequalities of pitch : wobbly
Synonyms: see drunk
II. intransitive verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
obsolete : to become drunk
III. adjective
: marinated, cooked, or soaked in beer or wine or in a mixture containing such a beverage
 < drunken chicken >
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