• (America) IPA: /ɪntɑksɪˈkeɪʃən/
• (RP) IPA: /ɪntɒksɪˈkeɪʃən/

intoxication

1. A poisoning, as by a spirituous or a narcotic substance.

   He suffered acute intoxication from the combined effects of several drugs.

2. The state of being intoxicated or drunk.

   Synonyms: inebriation, ebriety, drunkenness

3. The act of intoxicating or making drunk.
4. (figuratively) A high excitement of mind; an elation which rises to enthusiasm, frenzy, or madness.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter III, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC ↗, page 35 ↗:

     Excitement leads to enthusiasm, that moral intoxication, whose effects seem incredible to the sober, while the influence which produces the extravagance appears more extraordinary than the act itself.

• French: intoxication
• German: Vergiftung, Intoxikation

• German: Trunkenheit, Rausch, Berauschung, Berauschtsein, Betrunkensein

• German: Rausch, Berauschung