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Definition: Drunken |
DrunkenAdjective1. Given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol; "a bibulous fellow"; "a bibulous evening"; "his boozy drinking companions"; "thick boozy singing"; "a drunken binge"; "two drunken gentleman holding each other up"; "sottish behavior". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "drunken" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Drunkenness, in its most common usage, is the state of being intoxicated with alcohol (i.e. ethanol) to a sufficient degree to impair mental and motor functioning.Many societies have cultural stereotypes associated with drunkenness - where the ability to drink vast quantities of alcohol is thought to be worthy of respect. Arguably, such an attitude can be regarded as pathological, leading as it often does to alcoholism.
Drunkness is generally felt to be a good thing by the drunk person, at least till it wears off and the associated hangover starts.
Effects of alcohol on the body
Alcohol is a potent drug and consequently it has a range of side effects, some pleasurable and some less so. The amount consumed and the circumstances under which the alcohol was taken can play a large part in determining the extent of drunkenness. Drinking after eating a large meal is much less likely to induce drunkenness compared to taking in large amounts on an empty stomach. This is because the presence of food in the stomach is able to slow the absorption of alcohol in to the bloodstream, diluting its effects over a longer period of time.
Cell membranes are highly permeable to alcohol, so once alcohol is in the bloodstream it can diffuse into nearly every tissue of the body. This can contribute to the correspondingly dramatic effect seen when large amounts are taken.
Alcohol has a biphasic relationship on the body - its effects transform over an evening of drinking, from initial feelings of relaxation and cheerfulness to blurred vision and problems with coordination. After excessive drinking unconsciousness can often occur, and in extreme cases (when the concentration of alcohol in the bloodstream is over about 500mg per 100ml) alcohol can even cause death. Death can also be caused by vomiting blocking the trachea and causing choking. An appropriate first aid response to an unconscious, drunken person is a manuver known as the recovery position.
Moderate doses
Although alcohol is commonly thought of purely as a depressant, at low concentrations it can actually stimulate certain areas of the brain. Alcohol sensitises the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) system of the brain, making it more receptive to the neurotransmitter glutamate. Stimulated areas include the cortex, hippocampus and nucleus accumbens, which are responsible for thinking and pleasure seeking. Another one of alcohol's agreeable effects is the relaxative state it puts the body into. This could be caused by heightened alpha brain waves surging across the brain. Alpha waves are observed (with the aid of ECGs) when the body is relaxed. Heightened pulses are thought to correspond to higher levels of enjoyment.
A well-known side effect of alcohol is the loosening it has on inhibitions. Areas of the brain responsible for planning and motor learning are dulled. A related effect, caused by even low levels of alcohol, is the tendency for people to become more animated in speech and movement. This is due to increased metabolism in areas of the brain associated with movement, such as the nigrostriatal pathway. This causes reward systems in the brain to become more active, and combined with released inhibition can induce people to behave in an uncharacteristically loud and cheerful manner.
A large part of the behaviourial changes associated with drunkenness is learned. A scientific study found that people drinking in a social setting significally and dramatically altered their behaviour immediately after the first sip of alcohol, well before the chemical itself could have filtered through to the nervous system.
Excessive doses
The effect alcohol has on the NMDA receptors, earlier responsible for pleasurable stimulation, turns from a blessing to a curse later in the evening if further alcohol is consumed. NMDA receptors start to become unresponsive, slowing thought in the areas of the brain they are responsible for. Contributing to this effect is the activity which alcohol induces in the gamma-aminobutyric acid system (GABA). The GABA systen is known to inhibit activity in the brain, and would cause other areas to slow down. GABA could also be responsible for the memory impairment that many people experience. It has been asserted that GABA signals interfere with the registration and consolidation stages of memory formation. As the GABA system is found in the hippocampus, which is thought to play a large role in memory formation, this is thought to be possible.
Blurred vision is another common symptom of drunkenness. Alcohol seems to suppress the metabolism of glucose in the brain. The occipital lobe, the part of the brain responsible for interpreting vision, has been found to become especially impaired, consuming 29 per cent less glucose than it should. With less glucose metabolism, the cells work less efficiently and aren't able to process what we see properly. Severe drunkenness and diabetic coma can be mistaken for each other, with potentially serious medical consequences for diabetics.
Often after lots of alcohol has been consumed, it is possible to get the sense that the room is spinning, technically called positional alcohol nystagmus. Although motor areas of the brain are usually heavily affected at this time, it is not directly the brain which is responsible here; alcohol has affected the organss responsible for balance, present in the ears. Balance in the body is monitored principally by two systems: the semicircular canals, and the utricle and saccule pair. Inside both of these is a flexible blob called a cupola, which moves when the body moves. This brushes against hairs in the ear, creating nerve impulses that travel through the 8th Cranial Nerve in to the brain. However, when alcohol gets in to the bloodstream it distorts the shape of the cupola, causing it to keep pressing on to the hairs. These 'fake' nerve impulse tell your brain that the body is rotating, causing disorientation and making the eyes spin round to compensate. When this wears off (usually taking until the following morning) the brain has adjusted to the spinning, and interprets not spinning as spinning in the opposite direction causing further disorientation. This is often a common symptom of the hangover.
Extreme over-indulgence can lead to alcohol poisoning and death due to respiratory depression.
A person who is an alcoholic or habitually drunk is often referred to as a 'drunk'.
Slang terms for being drunk:
The ancients believed that putting an amethyst in the glass or in one's mouth while drinking prevented drunkenness.
- bladdered
- blitzed
- blootered
- blotto
- bombed
- caned
- hammered
- legless
- liquored up
- loaded
- one over the eight
- pie-eyed
- pissed (variant; "Pissed as a newt")
- plastered
- rat-arsed / ratted
- shit-faced
- sloshed
- smashed
- soused
- sozzled
- squiffy
- steaming
- stewed
- tanked
- three sheets to/in the wind
- tiddly
- tipsy
- tired and emotional
- wasted
- wiped out
See also:
- alcoholism
- blind drunk
- ethanol
- alcoholic beverages
- alcopops
- pub crawl
Further reading
- Stuart Walton: Out of It. A Cultural History of Intoxication (Penguin Books, 2002) (ISBN 0140279776).
- 'Modern Drunkard Magazine', A humorous magazine about drink and the art of getting drunk.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Drunkenness."
Synonyms: DrunkenSynonyms: bibulous (adj), boozy (adj), sottish (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Agitation | Toss about, jump about; jump like a parched pea; shake like an aspen leaf; shake to its center, shake to its foundations; be the sport of the winds and waves; reel to and fro like a drunken man; move from post to pillar and from pillar to post, drive from post to pillar and from pillar to post, keep between hawk and buzzard. |
Drunkenness | Drunken, bibacious, sottish; given to drink, addicted to drink, addicted to the bottle; toping;Verb: |
Food | Drink in, drink up, drink one's fill; quaff, sip, sup; suck, suck up; lap; swig; swill, chugalug, tipple; (be drunken); empty one's glass, drain the cup; toss off, toss one's glass; wash down, crack a bottle, wet one's whistle. |
Irresolution | Verb: be irresolute; Adjective: hang in suspense, keep in suspense; leave "ad referendum"; think twice about, pause; dawdle; (inactivity); remain neuter; dillydally, hesitate, boggle, hover, dacker, hum and haw, demur, not know one's own mind; debate, balance; dally with, coquet with; will and will not, chaser-balancer; go halfway, compromise, make a compromise; be thrown off one's balance, stagger like a drunken man; be afraid; let "I dare not" wait upon "I would"; falter, waver |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Drunken |
| English words defined with "drunken": accusation, arouse, awaken ♦ bacchanal, bacchanalian, Bacchanalianism, bacchant, bacchic, bibulous, blaspheme, boozy, Bousy ♦ carouse, carousing, charge, curse, cuss ♦ Dronkelewe ♦ embarrassed ♦ frenzied ♦ grogginess ♦ humiliated ♦ imprecate ♦ Jackeen ♦ manic, mortified ♦ orgiastic, Orgies ♦ protective ♦ riot, roister, rouse ♦ scuffle, semiconsciousness, sottish, stupefaction, stupor, swear ♦ Temulent, tussle ♦ Vinolent ♦ wake, wake up, waken. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "drunken": CHOICE SPIRIT ♦ Drunk, Drunken Deddington ♦ ENSIGN BEARER ♦ Geneva Print ♦ Harrington ♦ Mauthe Dog ♦ Passy-measure Pavin ♦ VICE ADMIRAL OF THE NARROW SEAS. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "drunken": Drunkenly. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Cretan camouflage sir. If you want to blend in with a bunch of drunken Greeks there's nothing better (Good Morning, Vietnam; writing credit: Mitch Markowitz) Have you looked up your ass, you drunken fool (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein) An Indian ranch hand, a drunken gunfighter, a sex maniac, and an uncle (Cat Ballou; writing credit: Roy Chanslor; Walter Newman) Only a drunken, infantile idiot shoots himself over love, not an internist (A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy; writing credit: Woody Allen) | |
Lyrics | WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH THE DRUNKEN SAILOR (You're Sixteen (You're Beautiful And You're Mine); performing artist: Ringo Starr) | |
Clever | Drunken Drivers Paid $1000 in `84 (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Drunken Acrobat (1896) Revenge of the Drunken Master (1984) The Shaolin Drunken Monk (1982) World of the Drunken Master (1979) | |
Song Titles | Three Drunken Maidens (performing artist: Steeleye Span - Prior/Hart) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | No sir! all the time I was abroad I didn't see a single drunken man ... Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Drunken soldiers tied up for fighting and other unruly conduct. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Drunken lumberjack, Craigsville, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Drunken fisherman in front of his trailer home. Ottawa, Illinois. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The drunken driver. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Drunken tux" by Julia Eisenberg Commentary: "Drunken tux." | "Attention"NO GUNS"" by Karoly Feher Commentary: "At the NATO bases there are several pubs too for every nation. You can drink after 18.00. But you may not carry your weapon to the area, to exclude drunken soldiers shooting to each other down because of -for example- nacionalist arguments." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Andrew Lang | He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts -- for support rather than for illumination. |
Aristotle | It's best to rise from life like a banquet, neither thirsty or drunken. |
Lord Chesterfield | Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough. |
St. Joannes Chrysostomus | The drunken man is a living corpse. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | I am as giddy as a drunken man. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | In view of all these things, he moved like a drunken man. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | From the foul laneways he heard bursts of hoarse riot and wrangling and the drawling of drunken singers |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | They took him under the elbows and lifted him to his feet, and he grumbled and cursed thickly, like a drunken man. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Human Rights | Namibia | There were reports of intimidation and abuse of civilians by the FAA, including sexual harassment, threatening behavior by drunken soldiers, and indiscriminate use of firearms. (references) |
Namibia | For example, on September 15, there was a report that a drunken NDF soldier shot and injured Ralph Nairenge, a 17-year-old student at the Bunya Junior Secondary School, west of Rundu, reportedly while he walked down the street in Bunya. (references) | |
Guatemala | Many of these cases involved accidental discharges of weapons, drunken misbehavior by on- or off-duty officers, questionable crowd control techniques, or poor judgment by officers who lost control of unstable situations involving angry crowds or persons resisting arrest. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Drunken" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Drunken" is used about 623 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 623 | 10,395 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "drunken": driving while drunken ♦ drunken bout ♦ drunken driving ♦ drunken hiccup ♦ drunken reveler ♦ drunken reveller ♦ drunken revelry ♦ drunken saw ♦ drunken woman ♦ stagger like a drunken man. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "drunken": drunken-dog, drunken-driving. | |
Ending with "drunken": half-drunken. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "drunken"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pijanec (bibber, boozer, drinker, drunkard, guzzler, habitual drunkard, malt-worm, soaker, sot, tippler, toper, winebag), i pirë (drunk, groggy, high, loaded, muzzy), i dehur (boozy, crocked, drunk, elevated, exhilarated, far gone, going far, groggy, inebriate, jagged, lit, muzzy, oiled, pissed, potted, queer, screwed up, screwy, sozzled, tanked). (various references) | |
Arabic | مترنح (faltering, groggy, reeling, rocky, shaky, staggering, tottering, tottery), مخمور (blind drunk, boozy, in one's cups, inebriated, intoxicated, sottish, tipsy, well oiled), سكير (alcoholic, bacchanalian, blind drunk, drinker, drunk, hard drinker, heavy, rummy), سكري (saccharine, sugary), سكران (boozer, boozy, canned, drunk, flat, groggy, inebriate, intoxicated, loaded, pickled, pissed, plastered, screwed up, squiffy, tanked, tipsy), ثمل (besotted, blind drunk, boozer, boozing, boozy, drunk, high, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, intoxication, lush, maudlin, pickled, plastered, rummy, screwed, screwed up, smashed, sottish, stewed, stoned, take to drink, tanked, tight, tipsy, well oiled). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | пиянски (bacchanal, drinking, lickerish, liquorish, sottish, vinous), пиян (cockeyed, drunk, incapable, inebriate, intoxicated, jagged, juiced, lit, loaded, pickled, pie-eyed, pixilated, plastered, queer, ripe, screwed, screwy, shot, slaughtered, soused, stoned, tanked, tight, under the table, wet). (various references) | |
Chinese | 酒醉. (various references) | |
Czech | opilý (crapulous, drunk, fuddled, high, inebriated, intoxicated, sottish, soused, tipsy). (various references) | |
Dutch | besturen van een voertuig onder invloed (driving while drunken, drunken driving). (various references) | |
Farsi | مست (Drunk, Groggy, Sot, Souse, Tipsy). (various references) | |
Finnish | rattijuoppous (driving under the influence of alcohol, drunken driving), rattijuoppo (drunken driver). (various references) | |
French | soûlard (drunk, drunkard), soûl (drunk), ivrogne (drunk, drunkard), ivre (becoming drunk, drunk), intoxiqué (drug addict), cassé par le boisson, bourré (blind drunk, dead drunk). (various references) | |
German | betrunken (drunk, groggily, inebriated, intoxicated), trunken (drunk, inebriated, intoxicated). (various references) | |
Greek | μεθυσμένοσ (drunk, groggy, inebriate, intoxicated, plastered, soused, tight), μεθυσμένος (drunk). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ittas (boiled, bosky, groggy, in one's cups, overtaken in drink, overtaken with drink, pickled, tipsy, vinous). (various references) | |
Italian | ubriaco (drunk, inebriate, intoxicated, plastered, tight), ebbro (drunk, groggily). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 酔余 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | すいよ. (various references) | |
Korean | 술취하는 (Drunk). (various references) | |
Manx | meshtoil (heady, sottish, vinous). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | unkendray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | embriagado (bosky, groggy, inebriate, intoxicated, lushed, pickled, plastered, tipsy), bêbado (alcoholic, bacchic, bibber, bloat, boozer, drunk, drunkard, exhilarated, intoxicated, light-headed, pissed, screwed, smashed, tippler, tipsy, toper), ébrio (bacchanal, beery, boozy, crapulent, dram-drinker, drinker, drunk, drunkard, exhilarated, intoxicated, pissed, plastered, screwed, soaker, sot, sottish, sozzled, stewed, tippler, toper, vinous). (various references) | |
Romanian | beat (befuddled, boozy, cock eyed, drunk, elevated, groggy, in drink, in one's cups, in wine, inebriate, intoxicated, muzzy, on the fuddle, pickled, pie-eyed, queer, screwed, sottish, squiffed, tight, tipsy). (various references) | |
Russian | пьяный (blind drunk, blotto, boozy, foxed, high, in drink, in wine, inebriate, lush, pickled, pissed, pixilated, plastered, queer, screwed, sewed up, soused, sozzled, squiffed, tanked, wet, woozy). (various references) | |
Scottish | càpraid (drunken riotousness). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | u pripitom stanju. (various references) | |
Spanish | borracho (addicted to wine, alcoholic, boiled, boozer, boozy, capernoited, crapulent, dram-drinker, drunk, drunkard, fuddled, groggily, inebriate, intoxicated, loaded, lushed, malty, plastered, rummy, sloshed, souse, stewed, stoned, tight, well oiled). (various references) | |
Swedish | drucken (drunk, groggy, inbriate, intoxicated, tipsy). (various references) | |
Thai | ซึ่งมึนเมา. (various references) | |
Turkish | sarhoş (bacchant, beery, besotted, blind drunk, blotto, bombed, boozed, boozer, boozy, canned, cockeyed, corked, drunk, drunkard, fried, groggy, high, intoxicated, jagged, lit, lit up, loaded, nappy, oiled, pickled, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, queer, screwed, sloshed, smashed, sodden, sot, sottish, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stewed, stiff, stinking, stinko, stoned, tanked, tight, under the influence, under the influence of drink, under the weather, well oiled, winy, woozy, zonked), içkinin etkisiyle yapılan, içkici (bibber, bibulous, boozer, boozy, drinker, drunkard, habitual drinker, habitual drunkard, heavy drinker, lush, soak, sponge, tippler, toper, wino). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | хмільний (hopped), нерівний (anomalous, banky, broken, humpy, inconstant, inequable, irregular, ragged, rough, rugged, splashy, stair-step, tremulant, tremulous, unequal, uneven, unsteady), п'яний (banged, blind drunk, boiled, boozy, canned, disguised, drunk, groggy, inebriate, intoxicate, lush, malty, noggy, pickled, pie-eyed, pizz, plastered, raddled, screwed, sodden, soused, sozzled, sozzly, under the table, vinous, wall eyed, wet, winy, woozy, zigzag), питущий (non-abstainer, notional, vinous). (various references) | |
Welsh | abrwysg (clumsy). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | ebriacus, ebrius, potum, potumque, potus, temulenti, temulentus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 9, Verse 21 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai epien ek tou oinou kai emequsqh kai egumnwqh en tw oikw autou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Bibensque vinum inebriatus est et nudatus in tabernaculo suo |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Ond ða ða he dranc of ðam wine, ða wearð he druncen ond læg on his getelde unbehelod. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And nakid he lay in his tabernacle. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And drancke of the wyne and was droncke and laye vncouered in the myddest of his tet. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And he drank the wine, and was drunken, and he was uncovered within his tent. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And he took of the wine of it and was overcome by drink; and he was uncovered in his tent. |
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| Language | Genesis Chapter 9, Verse 21 |
| Cebuano | Ug miinum siya sa vino ug nahubog siya, ug nahuboan siya sa sulod sa iyang balongbalong. |
| Croatian | Napio se vina i opio, pa se otkrio nasred šatora. |
| Danish | Da han nu drak af Vinen, blev han beruset og blottede sig inde i, sit Telt. |
| Dutch | En hij dronk van dien wijn, en werd dronken; en hij ontblootte zich in het midden zijner tent. |
| Finnish | Mutta kun hän joi viiniä, niin hän juopui ja makasi alasti majassansa. |
| French | Il but du vin, s`enivra, et se découvrit au milieu de sa tente. |
| German | Und da er von dem Wein trank, ward er trunken und lag in der Hütte aufgedeckt. |
| Haitian Creole | Yon jou, apre li te fin bwè diven, li sou. Li wete tout rad sou li, li kouche toutouni anba tant li. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Setelah Nuh minum anggurnya, ia menjadi mabuk. Dilepaskannya segala pakaiannya lalu tidurlah ia telanjang di dalam kemahnya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka diminum oleh Nuh air anggur itu, lalu iapun mabuklah, maka berbaringlah ia dengan telanjang di tengah-tengah kemahnya. |
| Maori | A ka inumia e ia te waina, ka haurangi; na ka takoto tahanga i roto i tona teneti. |
| Norwegian | Og han drakk av vinen og blev drukken, og han klædde sig naken inne i sitt telt. |
| Portuguese | Bebeu do vinho, e embriagou-se; e achava-se nu dentro da sua tenda. |
| Rumanian | A bqut vin, s`a kmbqtat wi s`a desgolit kn mijlocul cortului squ. |
| Swedish | Men när han drack av vinet, blev han drucken och låg blottad i sitt tält. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "drunken": drunkenly, drunkenness, drunkennesses. (additional references) | |
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"Drunken" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dranke, dranken, drinken, Drinkken, Dronke, Drucke, drucken, Drueke, druke, druken, drukken, Drukov, drunke, drunked, Drunkeen, drunkening, Drunkin, drunkne, drynke, duken, duncen, dunken, Ronken. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "drunken" (pronounced dru"ngkun) |
| 6 | -r u" ng k u n | shrunken. |
| 5 | -u" ng k u n | sunken. |
| 3 | -k u n | falcon, awaken, bacon, beacon, beckon, blacken, bracken, broken, chicken, darken, deacon, forsaken, gascon, harken, heartbroken, housebroken, interleukin, lichen, liken, Macon, misspoken, mistaken, outspoken, overtaken, Pekin, pelican, Pipkin, pumpkin, quicken, reawaken, reckon, republican, retaken, second, shaken, sicken, silicon, slacken, spoken, stricken, taken, thicken, token, unbroken, undertaken, unshaken, unspoken, waken, weaken, woken, zircon. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-k-n-n-r-u" | |
-1 letter: dunker, dunner, unkend. | |
-2 letters: drunk, nuder, nuked, under. | |
-3 letters: drek, duke, dune, dunk, dure, durn, kern, knur, kune, nerd, neuk, nude, nuke, nurd, rend, rude, rued, rune, unde. | |
-4 letters: den, due, dun, end, ern, ken, kue, nun, red, rue, run, uke, urd, urn. | |
-5 letters: de, ed, en, er, ne, nu, re, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-k-n-n-r-u" | |
+1 letter: unkinder, unranked. | |
+2 letters: drunkenly. | |
+3 letters: undertaken, unkindlier, wunderkind. | |
+4 letters: drunkenness, undertaking, undrinkable, wunderkinds. | |
+5 letters: undertakings, wunderkinder. | |
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