drunkenness
Noun
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Noun
drunkenness (uncountable)
- A state of being drunk.
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night:
- But presently the fumes of the wine rising to his head, he became helplessly drunk and his side-muscles and limbs relaxed and he swayed to and fro on my back. When I saw that he had lost his senses for drunkenness, I put my head to his legs and, loosing them from my neck, stooped down well-nigh to the ground and threw him at full length, […]
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night:
- See also Thesaurus:drunkenness
- soberness; see also Thesaurus:drunkenness#Antonyms
- French: ébriété, ivresse
- German: Trunkenheit, Betrunkenheit, Alkoholberauschung, Alkoholberauschtheit
- Italian: ubriachezza, sbornia, ciucca, ubriacatura
- Portuguese: bebedeira, embriaguez, tosga
- Russian: опьяне́ние
- Spanish: borrachera, embriaguez, pedo, cogorza
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