fordrunken

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Definition of fordrunken in English English dictionary

Overcome with drink

Very drunk

Utterly drunk; very drunk

Etymology

() From Middle English, from Old English fordrunken, past participle of fordrincan (“to make drunk, be drunk”), from Proto-Germanic *fradrinkanan (“to make drunk”), equivalent to for- +‎ drunken. Cognate with Dutch verdronken (“drowned”), German vertrunken (“drunk”), Danish fordrukken (“drunken, very drunk”), Icelandic fordrukkinn (“drunken, very drunk”). More at for-, drunken.