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# drunken

«drunken» in Mova's school dictionary: **Drunk, or often drunk: affected by too much alcohol** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

1) Drunk, or often drunk: affected by too much alcohol. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drunken/#m1)

2) Caused by or happening when people are drunk, like drunken shouting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drunken/#m2)

3) (in names of things) Swaying or crooked as if drunk, as in «a drunken sailor». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drunken/#m3)

4) Drunken is an old-fashioned past form of «drink», as in «they had drunken their fill», meaning they had drunk all they wanted. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drunken/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In stories, history and news it describes behaviour caused by alcohol, often noisy or dangerous; in health lessons, it is linked with the dangers of alcohol; in songs, like the old sea song «What shall we do with the drunken sailor?»; phrases: «drunken behaviour», «drunken singing».

### examples

- Drunken shouting woke us up in the night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drunken/#x1)
- The police stopped the drunken driver. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drunken/#x2)
- Sailors sang about a drunken sailor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drunken/#x3)
- The story had a drunken pirate who fell asleep on the deck. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drunken/#x4)
- Drunken behaviour at football matches is not allowed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drunken/#x5)
- The old fence leaned at a drunken angle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drunken/#x6)
- But at last one day Isidore drank so much brandy that he fell into a drunken sleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drunken/#x7)

### note

Used before a noun: «a drunken man» (but «the man was drunk»). Safety: alcohol is not for children; a drunk person should never drive. Old past participle of drink is «drunk», not «drunken».

### In the corpora

- [And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.238/)
- [And Eli said unto her: 'How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.14/)
- [Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1153/)
- [For though they be like tangled thorns, and be drunken according to their drink, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/NAM.13/)
- [Thou also shalt be drunken, thou shalt swoon; thou also shalt seek a refuge because of the enemy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/NAM.44/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «drunken» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drunken/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.