delirious
delirious
Definition
de·liri·ous (di lir′ē əs)
delirious
Synonyms
delirious
Usage Examples
Preposition: with
- fever: I remember seeing my father delirious with fever get out of bed to say his prayers five times a day.
- excitement: The small number of Albion fans on the opposite side of the ground immediately went delirious with excitement.
- happiness: Messages have arrived by the dozen from groups delirious with happiness that I am back in parliament.
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- send: Billy McLeod sent the defense the wrong way before firing home a memorable winner to send the home supporters delirious with excitement.
Used with adjective complement
- become: On the morning of Thursday 21st July he became delirious.
- go: I had to hold on to one lad who went delirious.
- get: Andy Thorn: I was getting delirious with the heat.
- lie: There was nothing for me to do but offer comfort to the others, who were now lying delirious in their respective bunks.
- see: Next, three girls in bright dresses dance in time to the music and we see Delirious?
Modifying Another Word
- almost: Almost delirious with terror, she tells her mother what she has just seen.
- so: I was so delirious, I told my mom that Jesus was coming.
- not: He had been unconscious ever since a week last Monday night, but he was not delirious.
- now: City's fans were now delirious, Forest's trying to get out and go home, they'd seen enough.
Modifies a noun
- state: In my delirious state I began to think I might never get better.
- scene: He was mobbed in delirious scenes at the finish.
- effect: Watching the film again with English subtitles the delirious effect is not diluted.
- pop: The band brings their delirious pop back home for what is bound to be a riotous gig.
- dream: He is eventually dumped in a ditch by the cow where - in a delirious dream - he dances with nymphs.
- fan: Afterward Valencia's delirious fans staged a street party outside the stadium, complete with booming firecrackers.
Browse dictionary entries near delirious
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- deliquescence
- deliquesced
- deliquesce
- delinquently
- delinquent
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- deliriously
- deliriousness
- delirium
- delirium tremens
- deliriums
- delish
- delist
- Delius
- deliver
- deliverable
