noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a drinking companion (= someone you go out with to drink alcohol )
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George was out again with his drinking companions.
binge drinking
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Binge drinking is an increasing problem among young people.
drinking chocolate
drinking fountain
drinking water (= water that you can drink safely )
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There is no source of drinking water on the island.
drinking water
eating/drinking habits (= the kinds of things you eat or drink regularly )
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You need to change your eating habits.
excessive drinking (= drinking too much alcohol )
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Your excessive drinking has to stop.
Heavy drinking
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Heavy drinking during pregnancy can damage your baby.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
eating
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Even such mundane tasks as eating or drinking have found a place in some ballets.
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Forget not good enough, she was still eating and drinking and her flat was usually warm.
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Angels also attended their eating and their drinking .
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There was a lot of singing and dancing, and eating and drinking .
excessive
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There are also the dangers of cutting down on food to pay for drink or drifting into excessive drinking due to loneliness.
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Abusive or excessive drinking is harmful not only to society but to the long-term interests of the industry as well.
heavy
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Around 1 in every 1,000 births are handicapped due to heavy drinking during pregnancy, although the handicap is usually mild rather than severe.
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David, from Torrington, Devon, joined three pals for the evening, despite being told it might involve heavy drinking .
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Do not cover up aspects of your lifestyle, such as heavy drinking , which you think may make you look less respectable.
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Many people seem simply to grow out of heavy drug use, rather as many young drinkers mature out of heavy drinking .
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With prolonged heavy drinking , the effects of alcohol on health can be drastic.
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Many people have succumbed to torpor after a week's heavy drinking .
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December 8, 1924: I am at the moment just recovering from a heavy bout of drinking .
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Whether they are or not, they can suffer severe medical, social and other consequences from their consistent heavy drinking .
sensible
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Despite medical advice about sensible drinking , many people still over-indulge, particularly in the run-up to Christmas and the New Year.
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Yet many of us do not really know how much we drink or the medically recommended sensible drinking levels.
smoking
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Patients with adenocarcinoma had smoking and drinking histories similar to those patients with severe oesophagitis.
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Patients of both groups were comparable in their ages and in their smoking and drinking habits.
■ NOUN
alcohol
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Almost all damage is, in the early stages, reversible provided people stop drinking alcohol .
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He should also avoid drinking alcohol .
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Avoid drinking alcohol or fruit juices. 6.
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Also useful is regular exercise, taking adequate daily calcium and not smoking or drinking alcohol to excess.
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Similarly, do not have a hot bath after a heavy meal or after drinking alcohol - the same thing could happen.
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And anyone found guilty of drinking alcohol may be subjected to 80 lashes of a cane.
beer
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You would catch them corners drinking beer .
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Soon, she thought, he would take to wearing shapeless brown coats, and drinking beer for breakfast instead of coffee.
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Our first stop was the Forge, where a bunch of Old-Timers sat drinking beer on the wooden porch.
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Three other late-night drivers were eating sandwiches and drinking beer .
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No one was really surprised when he checked out a week later after an argument about drinking beer in his room.
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Mending his clocks and drinking beer .
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That was the place where the men of the village spent their evenings, drinking beer and talking by the fire.
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Everyone was merry and laughing, drinking beer .
champagne
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He spotted Amaranth Wilikins drinking champagne with Charles Harvey and a second man whose name he did not know.
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With precious little to celebrate, and even less money with which to do it, many have stopped drinking champagne altogether.
coffee
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Quinn was in the sitting-room drinking coffee .
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In the newsroom, reporters hung around drinking coffee as they read or talked.
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They sat for several minutes, drinking coffee and talking companionably of this and that.
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So if, for example, you always smoke a cigarette when you have a cup of coffee , avoid drinking coffee.
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Vargas sat in the corner drinking coffee and reading a newspaper.
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Whether drinking coffee with his production people, chatting to his secretary or strolling along the corridor, his approach is professional.
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He spent half an hour in the restaurant, drinking coffee .
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We are sitting around drinking coffee in his flat, but you would think we were drinking champagne.
companion
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Irony is, after all, the modern mode, a drinking companion for resonance and wit.
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Sergei Ivanov will be sorely missed as a drinking companion by many.
habit
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They don't rate freedom especially highly and their drinking habits are the most modest in our sample.
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Voice over Whilst drinking habits and drinking houses have changed, the beer making process hasn't.
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Patients of both groups were comparable in their ages and in their smoking and drinking habits .
tea
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He spent the interval in full view of the enemy, drinking tea .
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They sat inside, drinking tea from enormous enamel mugs.
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Adam sat in his parents' house, drinking tea .
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The audience sat in a warm honey glow, drinking tea and eating richly iced cake.
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He asked not to be photographed drinking tea .
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McLeish looked past the boy to see Catherine Crane, colour returned, seated on an upright chair, drinking tea .
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Jack Firebrace and Arthur Shaw sat on the firestep smoking cigarettes and drinking tea .
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Chosen her as she sat drinking tea and eating chocolate biscuits and enjoying her small triumph.
water
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Nor has he provided any evidence to support his belief that cholera is spread in drinking water .
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And if our drinking water looked cloudy, we just let the tap run longer.
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Often it can take a little while to melt down the pieces of ice to make drinking water .
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Food and drinking water , Maggie thought.
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Geoffrey Smith Fluoride is now added to drinking water to protect teeth.
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This has also been found in drinking water , but is not seen as liable to be banned in the near future.
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Some are added to the drinking water , others are given in the feed.
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Even a horse's need for drinking water can become distorted.
wine
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House-buying is rather like drinking wine .
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We sat drinking wine and nibbling olives.
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There was something slightly shocking about an old woman drinking wine alone in a bed-sitting room.
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I don't start drinking wine until after I have had something to eat in case the alcohol affects my willpower!
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Inside the castle sat the great Daybog and his noble guests, drinking wine from golden cups.
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Pritchard, 37, admitted drinking wine at the school concert.
■ VERB
eat
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He was very sociable, and enjoyed eating , drinking and smoking.
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Which did not cease to be full of visitors coming and going, eating and drinking .
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They sat in silence, eating , drinking , two amiable and contented men.
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All that idleness; eating too much; drinking too much; going to bed in the early hours of the morning.
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We even hear of gods washing, walking, eating , drinking , being wounded and making love.
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Boots said there was a message on the product about children cleaning their teeth after eating or drinking .
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We spent the afternoon being entertained, eating , drinking and representing Chelmsford.
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I am trying to get a sighting of them eating cornflakes and drinking twelve - fourteen - sixteen nineteen bottles of wine.
sit
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They sat inside, drinking tea from enormous enamel mugs.
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Vargas sat in the corner drinking coffee and reading a newspaper.
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We rode into the Place St Michel and sat in a café drinking hot chocolate.
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We sat drinking wine and nibbling olives.
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Too flourishing, indeed, for the vicar, who objected to the time his bell-ringers sat drinking ale.
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Our first stop was the Forge, where a bunch of Old-Timers sat drinking beer on the wooden porch.
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Chosen her as she sat drinking tea and eating chocolate biscuits and enjoying her small triumph.
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We sat drinking and talking together for a while.
smoke
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Also useful is regular exercise, taking adequate daily calcium and not smoking or drinking alcohol to excess.
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Jack Firebrace and Arthur Shaw sat on the firestep smoking cigarettes and drinking tea.
start
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He started drinking 18 years ago.
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He learnt from Izz that, of the other dairymaids, Retty had become ill, and Marian had started drinking .
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Until they started drinking , I didn't have much of an impression of the Paisley students.
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She wondered whether he'd started drinking again.
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As a distraction he started gambling and drinking , spending so much on luxuries that he got into serious debt.
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I don't start drinking wine until after I have had something to eat in case the alcohol affects my willpower!
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Chemical seepage is starting to affect drinking water, 70 percent of which comes from underground sources.
stop
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Almost all damage is, in the early stages, reversible provided people stop drinking alcohol.
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Not much we can do, unless she stops drinking .
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His decision to stop drinking , made two days ago, now seemed futile, a pathetic old man's gesture.
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He had been told by the doctors that he would be dead within a year if he didn't stop drinking .
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Already there may be an awareness that, once started, it is difficult to stop drinking .
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Disputes about who's going to stop drinking and drive home don't help us go with the flow.
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The significant point here is that, even when they stopped drinking , the impairment of memory remained.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
What are you drinking?
drinking horn/powder horn etc
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Anyone can help by making a clear list of what he or she sees as the consequences of the sufferer's drinking .
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He was very sociable, and enjoyed eating, drinking and smoking.
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Is drinking affecting your reputation? 5.
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The theatre played in the evenings, the nights were for drinking .