bedrunken

English

Etymology

Past participle of bedrink

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʌŋkən

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Adjective

bedrunken (comparative more bedrunken, superlative most bedrunken)

1. drunken, drunk.
   • 1895, William Morris, transl., Beowulf‎^[1]:

     Full oft have they boasted with beer well bedrunken

   • 2006, Barbara Outland Baker, Arnold and Me: In the Shadow of the Austrian Oak‎^[2]:

     A little bedrunken, we delved into the analysis of what it felt like to talk to my old boyfiend, now a candidate for governor.

   • 2010, Andy Duroe, In Desperate Search of the Lesser Spotted Pink Salamander from Ghangi Blah‎^[3]:

     Normally he could whip all and sundry, but in his be-drunken state he had already survived several almost fatal bad beatings.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:drunk

Low German

Etymology

Past participle from bedrinken. Cognate to Dutch bedronken.

Adjective

bedrunken (comparative bedrunkener, superlative bedrunkenst)

1. drunk, drunken

Declension

Positive forms of bedrunken

gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter	all genders
predicative		he is bedrunken	se is bedrunken	dat is bedrunken	se sünd bedrunken
partitive		een Bedrunkens	een Bedrunkens	wat Bedrunkens	allens Bedrunken
strong declension (without article)	nominative	bedrunken	bedrunken	bedrunken	bedrunken
	oblique	bedrunken	bedrunken	bedrunken	bedrunken
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	de bedrunken	de bedrunken	dat bedrunken	de bedrunken
	oblique	den bedrunken	de bedrunken	dat bedrunken	de bedrunken
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	en bedrunken	en bedrunken	en bedrunken	(keen) bedrunken
	oblique	en bedrunken	en bedrunken	en bedrunken	(keen) bedrunken

Comparative forms of bedrunken

gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter	all genders
predicative		he is bedrunkener	se is bedrunkener	dat is bedrunkener	se sünd bedrunkener
partitive		een bedrunkeners	een bedrunkeners	wat bedrunkeners	allens bedrunkener
strong declension (without article)	nominative	bedrunkenere	bedrunkenere	bedrunkener	bedrunkenere
	oblique	bedrunkenere	bedrunkenere	bedrunkener	bedrunkenere
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	de bedrunkenere	de bedrunkenere	dat bedrunkenere	de bedrunkenere
	oblique	den bedrunkenern	de bedrunkenere	dat bedrunkenere	de bedrunkenere
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	en bedrunkenere	en bedrunkenere	en bedrunkener	(keen) bedrunkener
	oblique	en bedrunkenern	en bedrunkenere	en bedrunkener	(keen) bedrunkenere

Superlative forms of bedrunken

gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter	all genders
predicative		he is de Bedrunkenste	se is de Bedrunkenste	dat is dat Bedrunkenste	se sünd de Bedrunkenstenen
strong declension (without article)	nominative	bedrunkenste	bedrunkenste	bedrunkenst	bedrunkenste
	oblique	bedrunkensten	bedrunkenste	bedrunkenst	bedrunkenste
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	de bedrunkenste	de bedrunkenste	dat bedrunkenste	de bedrunkensten
	oblique	den bedrunkensten	de bedrunkenste	dat bedrunkenste	de bedrunkensten
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	en bedrunkenste	en bedrunkenste	en bedrunkenst	(keen) bedrunkensten
	oblique	en bedrunkenste	en bedrunkenste	en bedrunkenst	(keen) bedrunkensten

Synonyms

• duun
• drunken
• anduunt
• dick
• drietendick
• besapen
• betüdelt
• vull
• benusselt

Plautdietsch

Adjective

bedrunken

1. drunk, drunken, intoxicated