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half-drunk

adjective

  1. partially intoxicated with alcohol

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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“It looked like they’d gone to lunch — half-drunk coffee cups still on the desks.”

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A half-drunk cup of coffee was found sitting on the helm, and Kawahara’s oatmeal was left unfinished, as if the experienced fisherman suddenly disappeared in the middle of breakfast, said Heather Burns, a longtime friend.

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Two half-drunk cups of tea, and a plate of bread and butter and crisps were found in the living-room - fuelling speculation that someone else had visited the house that evening.

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Teachers had to abandon ship so quickly that in some cases, half-drunk cups of tea sat on their desks for months.

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The next morning, an image of him sat alone in the stand, a half-drunk plastic cup next to him, was on the front page of the paper at which he worked.

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