Synonyms for intoxication

Grammar : Noun

Spell : in-tok-si-key-shuh n

Phonetic Transcription : ɪnˌtɒk sɪˈkeɪ ʃən

Définition of intoxication

Origin : c.1400, intoxigacion "poisoning," from Medieval Latin intoxicationem (nominative intoxicatio) "poisoning," noun of action from past participle stem of intoxicare (see intoxicate). Meaning "drunkenness" is from 1640s.

noun inebriation

Example sentences :

For all their burden of intoxication, they knew the ground by instinct and from long association.
Extract from : « The Black Bag » by Louis Joseph Vance

One only noticed that he was very pale, with a look as of intoxication on his face.
Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola

She will allay your intoxication by gentle degrees, and send you sober home.
Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 8 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth

After the intoxication, When they drank the mead, Not one was spared.
Extract from : « Y Gododin » by Aneurin

One must have suffered as I have to understand the intoxication of my happiness.
Extract from : « The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 » by Various

I am not speaking of drinking, or not drinking, wine at all, but of intoxication.
Extract from : « Laws » by Plato

And then suddenly—as suddenly as the moment of intoxication had come to me—I awoke from my delirium.
Extract from : « The Woman Thou Gavest Me » by Hall Caine

Together they had plunged deep into the intoxication of the shops.
Extract from : « The Trimming of Goosie » by James Hopper

He would be slightly dizzy with the cocktails and with the intoxication of his own glory.
Extract from : « An Outcast of the Islands » by Joseph Conrad

But he had drunk in the smell, the intoxication of the track with his mother's milk.
Extract from : « Garrison's Finish » by W. B. M. Ferguson

Antonyms for intoxication

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