Many of the symptoms of hypothermia resemble those of a drunken stupor: sleepiness, clumsiness, confusion and even slurred speech.
They regularly guzzle the equivalent of about nine drinks a night-though they don't display what we'd consider drunken behavior.
From tipsy tree shrews to drunken monkeys, the primate lineage crawls with critters getting high off the hooch.
drunken fights and petty theft occurred alongside the anger over poverty and police brutality.
The money spent on college building that are damaged and befouled by drunken students is not is built into every college's budget.
It's difficult to maintain any moral superiority when your drunken revels are out there for public consumption.
Fiscally, spending is what sailors do on drunken sprees.
He is recovering from a drunken debauch which ended with his being bound up in telephone wire.
The shot keeps getting interrupted by the drunken owner of one of the roosters.
Tells how they once spent a drunken afternoon shooting an oak bookshelf in the writer's apartment with a shotgun.
British Dictionary definitions for drunken
drunken
/ˈdrʌŋkən/
adjective
1.
intoxicated with or as if with alcohol
2.
frequently or habitually drunk
3.
(prenominal) caused by or relating to alcoholic intoxication: a drunken brawl
Derived Forms
drunkenly, adverb drunkenness, noun
Word Origin and History for drunken
adj.
full form of the past participle of drunk. Meaning "inebriated" was in Old English druncena; adjectival meaning "habitually intoxicated" is from 1540s. Related: Drunkenly.