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Inebriation

noun
1.
Habitual intoxication; prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms.  Synonyms: alcohol addiction, alcoholism, drunkenness.
2.
A temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol.  Synonyms: drunkenness, inebriety, insobriety, intoxication, tipsiness.






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"Inebriation" Quotes from Famous Books



... foot-hold, and there is no firm ground of self-respect, and conscience is a loosened ledge toppling treacherously, and there is no steady hope to stay his horrible whirling and sinking. Stupefaction became sleep; with sleep inebriation passed; and Frank ...
— The Drummer Boy • John Trowbridge

... whose temper inebriation had soured, "why the devil didn't you come here earlier? The coup might have been brought off to-night. Gad, I want rousing. I'm just in the mood, and the sight of that pretty, saucy, baggage—oh, you're a damned ...
— Madame Flirt - A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' • Charles E. Pearce

... gentle inebriation, I felt my intellectual faculties strangely invigorated; wrote poetry, philosophized, and prayed till morning with feelings of real pleasure. I then became completely exhausted, threw myself upon my bed, and, spite of the gnats that were continually sucking my blood, I slept an hour ...
— My Ten Years' Imprisonment • Silvio Pellico



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