adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a drunken rage
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He smashed up his former girlfriend's car in a drunken rage.
a drunken/drunk driver (= who has drunk too much alcohol )
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Her husband was killed by a drunken driver.
drunken orgies
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the drunken orgies of their youth
in a drunken stupor
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We found him lying at the bottom of the stairs in a drunken stupor .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
driver
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Accepting lifts with drunken pilots is more dangerous than with drunken drivers .
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William Bird's wife Jean had been killed five years before in an horrific road accident involving a drunken driver .
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With cocaine we all have a choice denied us by a drunken driver .
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Last year's advert showed the humiliation of arrest through the eyes of a drunken driver .
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He flew into an anti-aircraft shell with the precise catastrophe of a drunken driver speeding into a wall.
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Read in studio A woman widowed by a drunken driver has collected a fifty thousand signature petition demanding tougher sentences for offenders.
driving
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Did you know he'd been convicted of drunken driving ?
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Bad cheque passing has risen by 87 percent and drunken driving by 205 percent.
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These include drunken driving , underage drinking and research into alcohol related problems.
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This might be justified as a means of signalling the connection between drunken driving and fatal accidents.
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For example, in the United States the Century Council targets drunken driving and underage drinking.
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Could be drunken driving , manslaughter, who knows?
man
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They also do a superb rendition of Dire Straits Romeo and Juliet sung by a drunken man .
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He'd seen 3 drunken men on this bridge in Swindon.
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One night a drunken man had staggered after her the length of Rosamunde Street.
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Shoplift charge: Stockton police yesterday arrested a drunken man in Nelson Terrace and charged him with shoplifting.
stupor
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One youth told of emerging from a drunken stupor to find himself in bed with the boy next door.
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It was definitely not a night to let a friend wander around in a drunken stupor searching for his car.
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At last a lone figure staggered out, singing raucously as he swaggered in a drunken stupor .
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May as well go to bed in a drunken stupor after dinner, same as the rest of them.
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I dismissed him as quickly as I could and later found that he had gone to drink himself into a drunken stupor .
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At last I fell back on to my stool and into the blackness of a drunken stupor .
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The monster fell asleep in a drunken stupor and Susa-no-wo then cut it to pieces and settled down with the maiden.
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They left him slumped in a drunken stupor against the church wall.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A drunken teenager was arrested for vandalism.
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A couple of drunken sailors were arguing with a policeman outside the bar.
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He hit her in a drunken rage.
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Many of their beer parties ended in a drunken brawl.
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The place was full of noise and drunken shouting.
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The two met at a drunken party in college.
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We found him lying by the roadside in a drunken stupor.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Did you know he'd been convicted of drunken driving?
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Ham dishonours his drunken father, and Noah curses him through his descendants.
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His drunken night, and morning.
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I thought you might be a Windmill girl ... come to blackmail me about some drunken indiscretion of mine.
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Just routine, Peter, but we don't want that drunken fool getting into mischief.
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The sister stood back, and the groom, followed by his drunken friends and hangers-on, pushed on into the courtyard.
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The son of a drunken soldier lived for six years with his grandmother in one room.
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There was a new intensity to his drinking and his drunken anger.