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bedrunken en · ADJ

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Etymology

Past participle of bedrink

Meanings

1. drunken, drunk.
   • 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:
   • 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:
   • Full oft have they boasted with beer well bedrunken 1895, William Morris, transl., Beowulf:

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Synonyms

drunk