bedrunken

comparative more bedrunken · superlative most bedrunken

1. drunken, drunk.

   Full oft have they boasted with beer well bedrunken

   1895, William Morris, transl., Beowulf

   2 more examples

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

   2006, Barbara Outland Baker, Arnold and Me: In the Shadow of the Austrian Oak

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

   2010, Andy Duroe, In Desperate Search of the Lesser Spotted Pink Salamander from Ghangi Blah

   Synonyms: drunk