Definition of Drunken

Drunken

of Drink

Overcome by strong drink; intoxicated by, or as by, spirituous liquor; inebriated.

Saturated with liquid or moisture; drenched.

Pertaining to, or proceeding from, intoxication.

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Drunken Quotations

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
Aristotle

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
George Bernard Shaw

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
Herman Melville

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
Herman Melville

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.
Ludwig van Beethoven

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
Charles Baudelaire

To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
Lord Chesterfield

My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.
Colin Firth

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.
Andrew Lang

With 2 movies opening this summer, I have no relaxing time at all. Whatever I have is spent in a drunken stupor.
Hugh Grant

I think that at the supper I neither receive flesh nor blood, but bread and wine; which bread when it is broken, and the wine when it is drunken, put me in remembrance how that for my sins the body of Christ was broken, and his blood shed on the cross.
Jane Grey

It's funny how all of this has worked out - I wasn't popular in high school, but now every drunken guy in the United States wants to be my pal. They all want to buy me a shot, and pretty soon I'm throwing up.
Jimmy Kimmel

My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the terror a drunken man in a rage can create in a child.
Antonio Villaraigosa

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination.
Andrew Lang

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Drunken Translations

drunken in German is trunken, betrunken, betrunken
drunken in Italian is ebbro
drunken in Spanish is borracho, ebrio
drunken in Swedish is drucken

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