hard drinker vs inebriate

hard drinker

inebriate

noun
  • A person who is intoxicated, especially one who is habitually drunk. 

verb
  • To become drunk. 

  • To cause to be drunk; to intoxicate. 

  • To disorder the senses of; to exhilarate, elate or stupefy as if by spirituous drink. 

adj
  • intoxicated; drunk 

How often have the words hard drinker and inebriate occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )