What's the difference between drunk and emboldened?
Drunk
Definition:
() of Drink
(p. p.) of Drink
(a.) Intoxicated with, or as with, strong drink; inebriated; drunken; -- never used attributively, but always predicatively; as, the man is drunk (not, a drunk man).
(a.) Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
(n.) A drunken condition; a spree.
Example Sentences:
(1) I haven't had to face anyone like the man who threatened to call the police when he decided his card had been cloned after sharing three bottles of wine with his wife, or the drunk woman who became violent and announced that she was a solicitor who was going to get this fucking place shut down – two customers Andrew had to deal with on the same night.
(2) The major part of water was drunk during feeding time.
(3) The leadership of 212 chapters of an organization called Mothers Against Drunk Driving was surveyed to obtain data on chapter emphasis, satisfaction, future involvement and perception of most effective countermeasures.
(4) We hope that the court of appeal in reaching its judgment understands that consent cannot happen when a woman is too drunk to consent.
(5) Big Red football parties had a reputation for being wildly drunk.
(6) "I would stand there and watch him every night, unless I was too drunk that I couldn't stand.
(7) A DWI conviction may also stimulate the drunk driver to seek treatment for alcoholism.
(8) Alcohol campaigns largely target younger women, yet the risk of breast cancer – which peaks in the 60-64 age group – increases by about 7% for every unit drunk per day.
(9) Tory toffs repelling undesirable immigrants, providing better schools, using welfare reform as a pathway to work, clearing vandals, yobs and drunks from the streets and standing up to our masters in Brussels would be very popular, and the word would soon be forgotten.
(10) But living in modern Britain feels like being one of a family of anxious, squabbling children whose parents have abandoned us to get drunk at the casino.
(11) There is a half-drunk glass of white wine abandoned on the coffee table at his Queensferry home - the Browns had friends around for dinner the previous night - and a stack of children's books and board games piled lopsidedly under a Christmas tree now shedding needles with abandon.
(12) No one would deny that Thomas drank too much or that he could be a troublesome drunk.
(13) Thirty-one males (17%) and 18 females (9%) reported getting drunk at least twice a month and having five or more drinks on each drinking occasion.
(14) Student days and getting drunk, our worst dates, how close we are to our parents, sausages, setting up Lindy Hop dance classes for gay people.
(15) "But I've never been drunk in my life," she says, to clarify).
(16) But Micheline Mwendike, 29, likened the concert to getting drunk to escape problems.
(17) My mum thought it was a bad idea, because the chefs were nuts, always drunk.
(18) "When beer is cheaper than water, it's just too easy for people to get drunk on cheap alcohol at home before they even set foot in the pub," the PM wrote in the foreword.
(19) Only recall of wine, the least frequently drunk beverage, was more highly correlated with current than with original consumption.
(20) Blood glucose remained unchanged during and after exercise when E was drunk.
Emboldened
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Embolden
Example Sentences:
(1) Western diplomats acknowledge that the capture of Qusair is likely to have emboldened President Bashar al-Assad , making him less likely to consider concessions – let alone stepping down.
(2) One big question is whether Lord Adonis’s NIC will feel emboldened enough to make proposals that conflict with government policy.
(3) Kerry warned a sceptical and sometimes raucous panel that failing to strike Syria would embolden al-Qaida and raise to 100% the chances that Assad would use chemical weapons again.
(4) The worst purveyors of hate, they’re emboldened by this election and they’re out in force.
(5) The forces of chauvinism, protectionism and xenophobia have been emboldened.
(6) Their brains enjoy a wide, uninhabited space that emboldens them to come up with and pursue novel ideas.
(7) The warning, in a report by the energy regulator, Ofgem , could embolden the government to trigger an early "dash for gas" which critics fear would mean higher carbon pollution for decades to come.
(8) The billion-dollar question now is whether Clinton’s recent travails will embolden bigger Democratic fish to take her on.
(9) Still Portland 0-0 RSL after 10 minutes 2.19am GMT 8 mins RSL look emboldened by that chance and now Morales gets the better of Jewsbury near the byline and forces a panicky clearance from Kah for a corner.
(10) Gay rights activists have been emboldened by the US supreme court’s decision last June to award same-sex spouses equal federal benefit rights, prompting an anti-gay backlash primarily in the more conservative southern states.
(11) The embassy move would also embolden Israel to further expand its illegal settlements throughout Palestine.
(12) In the 1940s as it was in the 1840s, as it had been ever since the Mayflower arrived at Plymouth laden with emboldening casks of wine and beer.
(13) attack is the latest offensive by the ever-emboldened insurgency, which has sought to exploit the vacuum created by the contested presidential election, which has failed to produce a successor to Hamid Karzai.
(14) However, in a line reminiscent of George W Bush's "axis of evil", Kerry specifically mentioned a host of US enemies, saying Iran could be "emboldened" if the US did not act.
(15) Senate Democrats were on a collision course with the White House on Tuesday as the party’s newly emboldened liberal wing dug in its heels over global free trade deals it claims will drag down US wages and working conditions.
(16) Finland’s refusal could embolden other eurozone members to block a deal, especially those in central Europea and the Baltic, which are proving to be the fiercest critics of the Greek government.
(17) But without a plan to politically empower them, the region's Sunnis could instead see the attacks as an extension of an 11-year period that has emboldened Iran and the Arab Shias at their expense.
(18) There are children and women and elders here.” If water protectors surrendered now, oil companies could be emboldened, added Brandy-Lee Maxie, a 34-year-old Nakota tribe member from Canada.
(19) This has emboldened the PKK and strengthened its hand both within Turkey and regionally.
(20) We’re concerned that language would embolden pharmaceutical companies to challenge government under the TPP where a country seeks a compulsory license to produce a generic medicine and the company feels it doesn’t meet that criteria because it’s not an emergency or an epidemic,” he said.