I.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a drunken/drunk driver (= who has drunk too much alcohol )
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Her husband was killed by a drunken driver.
dead drunk
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He came home dead drunk in the middle of the night.
drunk and disorderly
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Bell denied being drunk and disorderly .
drunk driving
drunk tank
hopeless romantic/materialist/drunk etc
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She was a hopeless romantic, always convinced that one day she would meet the man of her dreams.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
blind drunk
roaring drunk
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They were all roaring drunk and kept singing bawdy songs.
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I was twenty-three years old, and he got me roaring drunk.
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In some of the villages, apparently, vampire hunters get roaring drunk first.
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Never an unwise investment, never stone roaring drunk, never a pass at a secretary.
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So that night they celebrated, getting roaring drunk, playing cards and gambling.
stinking drunk
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Clayton got positively stinking drunk.
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At Christmas, I tend to get stinking drunk with schlock.
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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Willy was as drunk as any of us, if not more so.
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Anyway, I became as drunk as a vicar.
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He got drunk that night, though not as drunk as he pretended to be.
dead
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One young man is leaning back upon a seat, dead drunk .
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If you had been dead drunk , you couldn't have slept deeper.
so
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If he was so drunk that he could not appreciate the nature of the risk, he will not be volenti.
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I am rarely so drunk that I can't talk or walk straight.
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Now he told me, that night we got so drunk , that it was because of you that it hadn't happened.
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He was so drunk that he almost fell on top of her.
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I was allowed no anaesthetic because I was so drunk , but felt nothing of the emergency dental surgery or stitches.
too
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I am almost too drunk to hear them.
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The second houses were packed, but the people were generally too drunk to pay much attention.
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The porter crouched beside him, too drunk to offer any succour.
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She had lost him for a while, at the party, but she'd already been too drunk to worry.
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Ockleton, Morpurgo, Cornelius, Dysart and half a dozen others too drunk to mention.
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The band, too drunk to understand, began to play the Marseillaise.
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Paul Farrow slept in the same room when she fell, too drunk to notice.
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I never got drunk - that is, I never got too drunk.
very
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But she had got very drunk .
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She soon became very drunk and forgot about mankind, so they were saved from destruction.
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As the evening wore on, Durkin became very drunk .
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The Stevens brothers, who had built up Garth Enterprises, got very drunk and very noisy.
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As the hon. Gentleman has stated, Mrs. X, by her own admission, was very drunk .
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It was obvious that the woman was very drunk .
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I met a soldier from the Rifle Brigade who was very drunk , and I made him drunker.
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By then, Sikes was very drunk , and Fagin got up to leave.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
blind drunk
stinking drunk
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Clayton got positively stinking drunk.
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At Christmas, I tend to get stinking drunk with schlock.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Gary was too drunk to remember what had happened that night.
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He gets in fights when he's drunk .
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I just hope they don't get too drunk and start fighting.
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She was so drunk she could hardly stand up.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But he had been coming home drunk too often and now she was determined to let him know her feeling about it.
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He wondered if the whole Rorim were drunk tonight.
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Many artistes got drunk before they faced the ordeal on stage.
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No woman should be treated in a certain way simply because she was drunk when she suffered an assault.
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Okay, so I was looking for a politically active, fat, drunk kleptomaniac.
III. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
get
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In some of the villages, apparently, vampire hunters get roaring drunk first.
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When getting drunk or belligerent became too exhausting, I went out exploring on layovers.
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Manu and her girlfriend, who have got drunk , are kidnapped by a group of men.
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Another related a story about a friend who got pregnant unintentionally while drunk and only then was compelled to stop drinking.
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Palo sold the coffee and used all the money to get drunk .
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I think I must have overheard telephone conversations about Margarett getting drunk and late-night parties at Prides.
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Because of the way my grandfather lived, getting drunk and playing around, his son suffered.
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The scenario Amelia feared most had happened the men all got drunk .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A couple of drunks were passed out on the sidewalk.
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I don't like to take the bus at night. It's full of drunks and crazy people.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Drunks are heaped on drunks like spawning newts.
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Every night, the drunks come in.
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He knew that this tunnel-like place was shunned by tramps and feared even by drunks and peg-sellers.
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What it did was to take in drunks and sinful women, and not do anything about making them repent.