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drunken

 adjective
     
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drunk‧en [only before noun]
1MI drunk or showing that you are drunk:
He was a drunken bully.
She was lying in a drunken stupor (=nearly unconscious from being drunk) on the sidewalk.
2

drunken party/orgy/brawl etc

DL a party etc where people are drunk:
Tom got into a drunken brawl (=fight) in a bar.
—drunkenly adverb
—drunkenness noun [uncountable]
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