intoxication

noun

in-ˌtäk-sə-ˈkā-shən How to pronounce intoxication (audio)
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as in alcoholism
the condition of being drunk there's a firm distinction between the moderate consumption of alcoholic beverages and overindulgence to the point of intoxication

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as in ecstasy
a state of overwhelming usually pleasurable emotion the intoxication felt by two people who have just fallen in love

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Recent Examples of intoxication Across the state line three years ago, another toddler, age 2, died in Johnson County and a 9-month old died in Leavenworth County of fentanyl intoxication. — Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 16 Jan. 2025 The restaurant’s owner requested that the police detain the tourist for intoxication and disturbing the public order; on Sunday, Cabo Rojo’s mayor said that the responding officer had been suspended while the case was being investigated. — Graciela Mochkofsky, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2025 More details on Liam Payne's state of intoxication before his death have been released. — Taijuan Moorman, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2025 McPherson has a deft touch with the material, lightly capturing the fierce idealism of Doctor Astrov’s (a riveting John Benjamin Hickey) battle to save the forests and the woozy intoxication of Sonya’s (Melanie Field) crush. — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for intoxication
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  1. alcoholism
  2. ecstasy
  3. happiness
  4. heaven
  5. joy
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  • The native New Yorker and two-time Emmy nominee has long contended with health and medical crises, including diabetes, alcoholism and a 2010 kidney transplant, per Rolling Stone.
    — Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 18 Mar. 2025
  • The counterfeit bill contains the racial slur, an offensive caricature of a Black person and references to anti-Black stereotypes surrounding alcoholism and reliance on government welfare.
    — Jennah Pendleton, Sacramento Bee, 5 Mar. 2025
Definition of alcoholism
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  • Earlier, Waters is seen in a spasm of ecstasy after the aspiring lifestyle guru shows an intensely yellow egg yolk that came from one her famous rescue chickens.
    — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2025
  • When searching him and his car, police found a loaded 9 mm handgun on the driver’s side floorboard and 16 grams of ecstasy in his possession, the release said.
    — Naperville Sun, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2025
Definition of ecstasy
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  • For much of her youth, Natalie, 38, of New York, wasn't sure what happiness looked like for her.
    — Mark Davis, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Stephanie Harrison is the founder of The New Happy, an organization advancing a new philosophy of happiness.
    — Stephanie Harrison, Contributor, CNBC, 15 Mar. 2025
Definition of happiness
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  • Giant old growth conifers rise towards the heavens while thick ferns and mosses blanket the forest floor, all combining to dampen sound.
    — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Typically, missions surveying the heavens have wide fields of view but at only a handful of individual or groups of wavelengths of light.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 28 Feb. 2025
Definition of heaven
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  • But as one top seed was declared, then another, then another, a different feeling crept over the group than the joy that filled the room this time last year.
    — Austin Knoblauch, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2025
  • That idea—of a grand continuum, in which the circumstances change but all of our big human feelings (heartache, joy, unease, panic, contentment) remain the same, across time and vast distances—felt germane to her new songs.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
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