drunken
part of speech
adjective
meaning for a pupil
1) Drunk, or often drunk: affected by too much alcohol. tree →
2) Caused by or happening when people are drunk, like drunken shouting. tree →
3) (in names of things) Swaying or crooked as if drunk, as in «a drunken sailor». tree →
4) Drunken is an old-fashioned past form of «drink», as in «they had drunken their fill», meaning they had drunk all they wanted. tree →
sense in the lessons
In stories, history and news it describes behaviour caused by alcohol, often noisy or dangerous; in health lessons, it is linked with the dangers of alcohol; in songs, like the old sea song «What shall we do with the drunken sailor?»; phrases: «drunken behaviour», «drunken singing».
examples
- Drunken shouting woke us up in the night. tree →
- The police stopped the drunken driver. tree →
- Sailors sang about a drunken sailor. tree →
- The story had a drunken pirate who fell asleep on the deck. tree →
- Drunken behaviour at football matches is not allowed. tree →
- The old fence leaned at a drunken angle. tree →
- But at last one day Isidore drank so much brandy that he fell into a drunken sleep. tree →
note
Used before a noun: «a drunken man» (but «the man was drunk»). Safety: alcohol is not for children; a drunk person should never drive. Old past participle of drink is «drunk», not «drunken».
In the corpora
- And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
- And Eli said unto her: 'How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.'
- Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine;
- For though they be like tangled thorns, and be drunken according to their drink, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
- Thou also shalt be drunken, thou shalt swoon; thou also shalt seek a refuge because of the enemy.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «drunken» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.