Meaning of "punch-drunk" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF PUNCH-DRUNK

punch-drunk

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PUNCH-DRUNK

Punch-Drunk is an adjective.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PUNCH-DRUNK MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Dementia pugilistica

Dementia pugilistica is a neurodegenerative disease with features of dementia that may affect amateur or professional boxers, wrestlers as well as athletes in other sports who suffer concussions. A variant of chronic traumatic encephalopathy it is also called chronic boxer's encephalopathy, traumatic boxer’s encephalopathy, boxer's dementia, chronic traumatic brain injury associated with boxing, and punch-drunk syndrome. Symptoms and signs of DP develop progressively over a long latent period sometimes amounting to decades, with the average time of onset being about 12 to 16 years after the start of a career in boxing. The condition is thought to affect around 15% to 20% of professional boxers. Repetitive concussions are also common to quarterbacks, wide receivers, hockey and soccer forwards and hockey defense men. Occasionally a catcher defending home plate will experience a concussion. The condition is caused by repeated concussive and sub-concussive blows, or both. Because of the concern that boxing may cause DP, there is a movement among medical professionals to ban the sport.

Definition of punch-drunk in the English dictionary

The definition of punch-drunk in the dictionary is demonstrating or characteristic of the behaviour of a person who has suffered repeated blows to the head, esp a professional boxer. Other definition of punch-drunk is dazed; stupefied.

SYNONYMS OF «PUNCH-DRUNK»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «punch-drunk» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of punch-drunk

befuddled · confused · dazed · groggy · punchy · staggering · stupefied · unsteady · woozy

TRANSLATION OF PUNCH-DRUNK

Find out the translation of punch-drunk to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of punch-drunk from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «punch-drunk» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 模糊不清
• Translator English - Spanish: Punch-Drunk
• English: punch-drunk
• Translator English - Hindi: पंच नशे
• Translator English - Arabic: لكمة في حالة سكر
• Translator English - Russian: пробить - выпил
• Translator English - Portuguese: Embriagado
• Translator English - Bengali: হতবুদ্ধি
• Translator English - French: Punch -Drunk
• Translator English - Malay: Pukulan-mabuk
• Translator English - German: Punch- getrunken
• Translator English - Japanese: - パンチ酔っ
• Translator English - Korean: - 펀치 술에 취해
• Translator English - Javanese: Punching-drunk
• Translator English - Vietnamese: punch- uống
• Translator English - Tamil: பஞ்ச் டிரங்
• Translator English - Marathi: पंच-प्यालेले
• Translator English - Turkish: sarhoş yumruk
• Translator English - Italian: ponce
• Translator English - Polish: Lewy
• Translator English - Ukrainian: пробити - випив
• Translator English - Romanian: pumn - beat
• Translator English - Greek: γροθιά - μεθυσμένος
• Translator English - Afrikaans: vuisvoos
• Translator English - Swedish: punch- druckit
• Translator English - Norwegian: punch- drukket

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PUNCH-DRUNK»

Discover the use of punch-drunk in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to punch-drunk and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Punch-drunk Love: Adam Sandler, Emily Watson : Philip ...

Charming and outlandish by turns, this misfit love story of disconnected people trying to find one another in an antagonistic world is a comedy of discomfort and rage that turns unexpectedly sweet and pure.' Los Angeles Times

Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002

The Legality of Boxing: A Punch Drunk Love?

The first book of its kind dedicated to an assessment of the legality of boxing, The Legality of Boxing: A Punch Drunk Love? assesses the legal response to prize fighting and undertakes a current analysis of the status of boxing in both ...

Jack Anderson, 2007

Punch-Drunk on CO2...Dizzy from Spin

Peter Sullivan. CATASTROPHIC MAN-MADE GLOBAL WARMING: SUSTAINABLE HYPOTHESIS OR UNSUSTAINABLE HOAX? PETER SULLIVAN Punch-Drunk on CO2 . . . Dizzy from Spin Punch-Drunk. PUNCH-DRUNK 0N C02... DIZZY ...

Peter Sullivan, 2013

Punch Drunk: The Impact of an Emerging Wine Industry in ...

Daniel T. Johnson. Land-use woes Thirty-four years ago, then-Oregon Gov. Tom McCall spoke to the state Legislature about what he called “sagebrush subdivisions, coastal 'condomania' and the ravenous rampage of suburbia” sweeping ...

Daniel T. Johnson, 2007

Boxing: Medical Aspects

TABLE 27 List of fighters known by one promoter to be 'punch drunk'. (From MARTLAND, 1928). No. Initials Class Has Fought Present Condition 1 B.N. LHW Joe Gans Parkinsonian syndrome 2 J.D. HW Weinert, Fulton Drags leg; bad shape 3 ...

Friedrich Unterharnscheidt, Julia Taylor Unterharnscheidt, 2003

Boxing's Most WantedTM: The Top 10 Book of Champs, Chumps, ...

The Most Wanted|™ series puts on the gloves and steps inside the squared circle to chronicle the best and worst of the pugilistic world plus everything in between.

Mike Fitzgerald, David L. Hudson, Jr., 2003

Medicine, Sport and the Body: A Historical Perspective

In 1933 the American-based National Boxing Association had discussed a proposal for boxers to wear leather helmets (a forerunner of headguards) to prevent them from getting 'punch-drunk'. Although the editor of the sport's trade journal in ...

Neil Carter, 2011

LIFE

As a result, Dean is punch drunk from words. So he draws cartoons to explain without words what troubles him and the world. As a wordless satirist of what is going on and a punch- drunk prophet of what may happen, Dean is very effective in ...

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Paul Thomas Anderson: From Hard Eight to Punch-Drunk Love

This book is the first full treatment of the life and cinema of American film director Paul Thomas Anderson.

Colin Root, 2010

New Scientist

Stewart argues that good studies done in the past do not take account of the changes in the sport over the past five Enlarged ventricles Atrophy of nigra Pattern of damage in a punch-drunk brain years. "There is a much greater consciousness ...

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