drunken

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

1. (archaic, still occasionally in juxtaposition with eaten) past participle of drink

adj

1. Drunk, in the state of intoxication after having drunk an alcoholic beverage.
   What shall we do with a drunken sailor? […] / Put him in the longboat and make him bail her / Early in the morning. Drunken Sailor (traditional sea shanty)
   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.[…] 2014-12-23, Dallas S. Paskell, Medieval, Author House, page 389
2. Given to habitual excessive use of alcohol.
3. Characterized by or resulting from drunkenness.
   a drunken display of crude exuberance
   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. 1945 September and October, C. Hamilton Ellis, “Royal Trains—V”, in Railway Magazine, page 252
4. (obsolete) Saturated with liquid
   1. Applied to various spicy stir-fried dishes in Asian cuisine.
      drunken noodles; drunken duck; drunken fried rice

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

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