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Drunkenness

Drunkenness Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Drunkenness? [n] the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess; "drink was his downfall" [n] a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol [n] 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 \| Synonyms for Drunkenness: alcohol addiction \| alcoholism \| boozing \| crapulence \| drink \| drinking \| inebriation \| inebriety \| intoxication \| tipsiness Related Terms \| Find terms related to Drunkenness: a high \| alcoholism \| befuddlement \| besottedness \| bibulousness \| compotation \| crapulence \| crapulency \| crapulousness \| dipsomania \| dizziness \| drinking \| Dutch courage \| ebriosity \| excess \| excessiveness \| extravagance \| fuddle \| fuddledness \| fuddlement \| giddiness \| gluttony \| gulping \| guzzling \| hangover \| imbibing \| imbibition \| immoderacy \| immoderateness \| immoderation \| incontinence \| indiscipline \| indulgence \| inebriation \| inebriety \| inordinacy \| inordinateness \| insobriety \| intemperance \| intemperateness \| intoxication \| katzenjammer \| lapping \| lightheadedness \| morning after \| nipping \| overdoing \| overindulgence \| potation \| pot-valiance \| pot-valor \| prodigality \| pulling \| quaffing \| self-indulgence \| slipping \| sottedness \| sottishness \| spinning head \| swigging \| swilling \| swimming \| swinishness \| symposium \| tasting \| tipsiness \| too much \| too-muchness \| unconstraint \| uncontrol \| unrestraint \| vertiginousness \| vertigo \| wooziness See Also \| drinking bout \| drug addiction \| grogginess \| intemperance \| intemperateness \| sottishness \| temporary state \| white plague Drunkenness In Webster's Dictionary \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. The Lacedemonians trained up their children to hate drunkenness by bringing a drunken man into their company. --I. Watts. 2. Disorder of the faculties, resembling intoxication by liquors; inflammation; frenzy; rage. 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.

Drunkenness Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Drunkenness?

[n] the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess; "drink was his downfall"
[n] a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol
[n] 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

Drunkenness In Webster's Dictionary

\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.

         The Lacedemonians trained up their children to hate
         drunkenness by bringing a drunken man into their
         company.                              --I. Watts.

2. Disorder of the faculties, resembling intoxication by
   liquors; inflammation; frenzy; rage.

         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.

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