bedrunken
adjEtymology Past participle of bedrink
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drunken, drunk.
- Full oft have they boasted with beer well bedrunken1895, William Morris, transl., Beowulf:
- A little bedrunken, we delved into the analysis of what it felt like to talk to my old boyfiend, now a candidate for governor.2006, Barbara Outland Baker, Arnold and Me: In the Shadow of the Austrian Oak:
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- Normally he could whip all and sundry, but in his be-drunken state he had already survived several almost fatal bad beatings.2010, Andy Duroe, In Desperate Search of the Lesser Spotted Pink Salamander from Ghangi Blah:
- Synonyms
- drunk