What's the difference between drunk and slewed?

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.

Slewed


Definition:

  • (a.) Somewhat drunk.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) FC Terek Grozny, the newly energised team based in the troubled Caucasus republic of Chechnya , is hoping a slew of high-profile international acquisitions will help it make waves in the Russian premier league, which kicked off last weekend.
  • (2) The two polls underline the extent to which the coalition parties have been hit by a budget that has led to a slew of bad headlines over the granny tax, pasty tax and charities tax.
  • (3) A slew of figures from showbusiness, royalty and sport have also been linked with offshore companies in the documents.
  • (4) The developments include a DC SQUID with FM read-out, resulting in the most compact SQUID electronics so far, a planar microwave biased RF SQUID with very high slew rate, and efforts to create reliable SQUIDs with sufficient sensitivity for biomagnetic applications that are cooled by liquid nitrogen.
  • (5) Last year saw a slew of shootings involving members of the Yamaguchi-gumi - Japan's biggest underworld organisation - and a rival gang as they battled for control of lucrative districts in Tokyo.
  • (6) Individual cities have introduced a slew of initiatives, such as San Diego’s recycling of wastewater for drinking .
  • (7) "Our asset purchases depend on economic and financial developments, but they are by no means on a preset course," Bernanke will testify, according to Reuters : Bernanke set off a brief but fierce global market sell-off last month when he outlined plans to reduce the quantitative easing program, and he has joined a slew of Fed officials since then who have spelled out their intention to keep interest rates near zero well after the asset purchases.
  • (8) It works thus: you pick out what you want from a slew of local shops, and for £3.50 a man in a van delivers it to your house after work, a sort of posh meals-on-wheels meets Ocado.
  • (9) He conceded his speech was wide-ranging, which is one reason it prompted a slew of different headlines in the weekend press .
  • (10) Between the election and inauguration, Trump spent much of his time hosting meetings with representatives on a slew of topics and interest groups.
  • (11) It is the third suit filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights against a slew of North Dakota laws aimed at making the state abortion free.
  • (12) However, Black produces a slew of evidence that questions the analysis of the Office of National Statistics used to work out the productivity of the health service.
  • (13) The average chronic slew rate was half the average acute value.
  • (14) A slew of former and current New York politicians are joining demonstrators, who are bringing in 100 wheelchairs.
  • (15) CT scatter was observed to increase as scan field size and slice thickness increased, whilst there was little change in scatter with changes in gantry tilt and table slew.
  • (16) Similar changes were noted for the rate of voltage change (slew rate).
  • (17) Following a slew of downbeat economic indicators, market expectations are growing that there will be more quantitative easing from the Fed before the end of the year.
  • (18) The contentious Carmichael project has been delayed amid a thermal coal market slump and a slew of legal challenges from conservationists and traditional owners.
  • (19) The only real difference between Adam and Eve's kids and Marion and Ralph's over-achieving sons is that while the first murderer (Cain) slew Abel because, according to Genesis, the latter was favoured by God, David might have to slay Ed for being favoured by Labour party members.
  • (20) Some had been expecting an even weaker reading after a slew of downbeat economic indicators from the US in recent weeks.

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