alcoholic

Converse of object

• recover: Recovering alcoholics tell in their own words how it has given them new lives.
• treat: Yet only £ 95 million a year was spent treating alcoholics compared with £ 500 million a year treating people with drug problems.
• help: He sounds liberal in calling for federal aid to help alcoholics in local jails.
• become: This could also explain why women are less likely to become alcoholics than men.

Adjective modifier

• chronic: The Small Bowel Damage to the small bowel mucosa is common in chronic alcoholics.
• most: Most alcoholics secretly hope that they will be able to drink sociably like other people.
• many: Mark Myers said, on March 24th, 2006 at 11:36 pm And how many alcoholics do you think commit suicide?
• other: We worked with other alcoholics without demand for prestige or money.

Modifies a noun

• beverage: You are also welcome to bring an alcoholic beverage for your own consumption.
• drink: I was the first person to bring an alcoholic drink into the house; I was 21.
• hepatitis: A very severe bout of alcoholic hepatitis can quickly lead to liver failure.
• liquor: Alcoholic liquors shall not be sold or supplied to any person under eighteen years of age.
• cirrhosis: Initial fears that patients with alcoholic cirrhosis would fare less well following transplantation have proved unfounded.
• fermentation: Alcoholic fermentation is on the skins for 8 days at a temperature of 24°C, followed by malolactic fermentation.

Modifying Another Word

• not: We arrived and everyone was high on spirits ( no not alcoholic spirits ), just like last year the atmosphere was electric.

Infinitive complement

• stop: You cannot tell an alcoholic to stop drinking because alcoholics will always be alcoholics and they will always fancy a drink.

Used with adjective complement

• recover: Frank couldn't partake - he's a recovering alcoholic.
• reform: Holy George was a reformed alcoholic who had taken to the bible in a big way.
• become: But honestly, " he adds, grinning, " it wasn't like I'd become alcoholic.

Preposition: for

• year: My mother has been an alcoholic for thirty years.