intoxication
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
intoxication
- A poisoning, as by a spirituous or a narcotic substance.
- He suffered acute intoxication from the combined effects of several drugs.
- The state of being intoxicated or drunk.
- Synonyms: inebriation, ebriety, drunkenness
- The act of intoxicating or making drunk.
- (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
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