🇩🇪German Source WordCode: DE

besoffen

Pronunciation / Transliteration: besoffen

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
trashed/træʃt/
adjectiveverbCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇩🇪 Example Sentence in German:

"Er war gestern Abend völlig besoffen."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Extremely drunk or intoxicated.

    "He got completely trashed at the party last night."
As verb
  1. 1

    Past tense and past participle of 'trash': to wreck, ruin, or discard something.

    "The storm trashed our backyard patio."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the noun 'trash' (late Middle English, of unknown origin, possibly of imitative origin), meaning discarded material, which later evolved into a verb meaning to damage or ruin, and eventually slang for being heavily intoxicated.

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