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Filled answer is this word (DRUNKEN).
Definitions
Affected by alcohol or showing the behavior of intoxication.
Word origin
From Middle English drunken, ydronken, idrunken, from Old English druncen, ġedruncen (“drunk; drunken”), from Proto-Germanic *drunkanaz (“drunken”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *drinkaną (“to drink”), equivalent to drink + -en. Cognate with West Frisian dronken (“drunk; drunken”), Dutch dronken (“drunk; drunken”), German betrunken (“drunk; drunken”), Swedish drucken (“drunk; drunken”).
Used in a sentence
“What shall we do with a drunken sailor? […] / Put him in the longboat and make him bail her / Early in the morning.”
“a drunken display of crude exuberance”
“Surviving pictures of the accident show the two locomotives leaning at drunken angles, still covered with flags and evergreens—a mixture of comedy and tragedy.”
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