Word Finder - drunken

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To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.

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He drank the water I gave him.

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(metonymic) To consume the liquid contained within (a bottle, glass, etc.).

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Jack drank the whole bottle by himself.

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To consume alcoholic beverages.

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Everyone who is drinking is drinking, but not everyone who is drinking is drinking.

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To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.

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To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.

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To smoke, as tobacco.

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Drunk, in the state of intoxication after having drunk an alcoholic beverage

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"What'll we do with the drunken sailor, ..."

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Given to habitual excessive use of alcohol.

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Characterized by or resulting from drunkenness.

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a drunken display of crude exuberance

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Saturated with liquid

Martha, who I failed to forgive when she stumbled in one drunken moment of need, was gone forever.

The faithful talking with tongues were taken by bystanders for drunken men, but intoxicated men do not talk in languages of which they are normally ignorant.2 Paul on the whole discouraged glossolaly.

Pierre continued, in French, to persuade the officer not to hold that drunken imbecile to account.

The union proved childless and unhappy, and in 1780 the countess fled for refuge from her husband's drunken violence to a convent in Florence, where Charles had been residing since 1 774.

In his private life Ranjit Singh was selfish, avaricious, drunken and immoral, but he had a genius for command and was the only man the Sikhs ever produced strong enough to bind them together.

Having taken the drunken Silenus back to his youthful charge Dionysus, he was rewarded by the god with the power of transforming everything he touched into gold.

The medieval Jews also held that there is a cardiac demon in wine which takes possession of drunken men; and the Mahommedan prohibition of wine-drinking is based on a similar superstition.

Moreover, even after discounting the bias of his enemies, there is evidence to prove that his championship of the Church was not the outcome of his zeal for Christianity; for he was notoriously drunken, unchaste, avaricious and almost insanely ambitious.

In later times they are often represented drawing the car of Dionysus, or bound and ridden by Eros, in allusion to their drunken and amorous habits.

In Steve's third floor room our drunken antics begin with an attempt to throw the TV out of the window.

He meets up with Bernard during a drunken binge.

A full scale drunken brawl was in progress, no doubt.

There's just the very dark purple bruise on the inside of my left wrist of which the origin remains shrouded in drunken intrigue.

You know, if you think that Satan's man is a drunken bum, you've got it wrong.

Hoggard pops Malinga to slip off the arm, and the drunken clowns in the crowd are screaming no-ball every time he bowls.

We follow this energetic bunch through the perils of drunken nights out and unprotected one-nighters, finishing up cross-legged in the G.U.M clinic.

People feel all kinds of ways, But nothing can substitute a drunken daze, Apart from Rage.

For all those of you yearning for a sordid account of drunken debauchery.

Who had been severely disfigured in a car accident that was the fault of a drunken driver.

For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.

Lots of support coming from a slightly drunken granddad - which was ace!

Not much sign of them the night we were there, just a lot of very drunken Scots.

The word Amethyst comes from Greek and means " not drunken " .

When there is work to be done even drunken, turbulent or negligent men are given employment if they have the requisite physical vigor.

Gap years can be about more than just drunken nights out and shrinking bank accounts.

O Shamsi Tabriz, I am so drunken in this world, That except of drunkenness and revelry I have no tale to tell.

You are less co-ordinated and can have slurred speech when you have drunken on average 4 pints.

Mark takes pains not to be bettered by any drunken fool who wants to take him on.

A group of eccentric aristocrats amuse and confuse each other through 24 hours of mistaken identity, faux infidelity and drunken frivolity.

The romances, the drunken frolics and the laughter are just as important as the squabbles - probably more so.

Well, what it's NOT is a drunken fumble at the firm's Christmas party.

We decided even in our drunken haze to head back for some kip.

To abandon this group of drunken idiots on an unknown island without supervision?

Two days later he found a man in the yard outside the same room " in a very indecent position with a drunken prostitute.

He felt the drunken lift judder to a halt.

The force of the throw sent the vamp spinning into three drunken louts walking by.

Fowler kills Mabel a drunken fan you to know.

The Chartists were dismissed as a drunken loutish mob.

One drunken driver can seriously injure four occupants of a car.

How strange it must have looked for the many drunken partygoers who stumbled past the queue.

Even the most drunken punter will realize that you can't play a tune you don't have!

The drunken rabble will then proceed to a variety of different hostelries before going for a curry.

From drunken aggression and petty offenses, to the much more sinister organized drug and prostitution rackets.

At dawn a naked man interrupted some of the Druid rituals, but his drunken revelry merely caused cheers and amusement.

These festivities became very riotous as people began to abandon themselves and became drunken and out of order.

Two drunken sailors in the audience last night said their singing sounded like a couple of parrots fighting.

For the second Bank Holiday running, police are mounting an operation across the county to tackle the scourge of drunken violence.

She reveals how the clothes can define a character, giving the example of Algren's rise from drunken slob to hardened warrior.

In Between Women a woman resists telling her best friend about a drunken snog she enjoyed with her soon to be husband.

After a drunken spree, a businessman is arrested and imprisoned for 15 years.