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drunkenness
(encz) | drunkenness,opilost n: Zdeněk Brož |
drunkenness
(encz) | drunkenness,opilství n: Zdeněk Brož |
Drunkenness
(gcide) | Drunkenness \Drunk"en*ness\, n.
1. The state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic
liquor; intoxication; inebriety; -- used of the casual
state or the habit.
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The Lacedemonians trained up their children to hate
drunkenness by bringing a drunken man into their
company. --I. Watts.
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2. Disorder of the faculties, resembling intoxication by
liquors; inflammation; frenzy; rage.
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Passion is the drunkenness of the mind. -- South.
Syn: Intoxication; inebriation; inebriety. -- Drunkenness,
Intoxication, Inebriation. Drunkenness refers more
to the habit; intoxication and inebriation, to specific
acts. The first two words are extensively used in a
figurative sense; a person is intoxicated with success,
and is drunk with joy. "This plan of empire was not
taken up in the first intoxication of unexpected
success." --Burke. Drunkenship |
drunkenness
(wn) | drunkenness
n 1: a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of
alcohol [syn: drunkenness, inebriation, inebriety,
intoxication, tipsiness, insobriety] [ant:
soberness, sobriety]
2: 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 [syn: alcoholism, {alcohol
addiction}, inebriation, drunkenness]
3: the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess; "drink was
his downfall" [syn: drink, drinking, boozing,
drunkenness, crapulence] |
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drunkenness
(encz) | drunkenness,opilost n: Zdeněk Broždrunkenness,opilství n: Zdeněk Brož |
drunkenness
(wn) | drunkenness
n 1: a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of
alcohol [syn: drunkenness, inebriation, inebriety,
intoxication, tipsiness, insobriety] [ant:
soberness, sobriety]
2: 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 [syn: alcoholism, {alcohol
addiction}, inebriation, drunkenness]
3: the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess; "drink was
his downfall" [syn: drink, drinking, boozing,
drunkenness, crapulence] |
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