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
- 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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