intoxication
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɪntɑksɪˈkeɪʃən/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪntɒksɪˈkeɪʃən/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
- Hyphenation: in‧tox‧i‧ca‧tion
Noun[edit]
intoxication (countable and uncountable, plural intoxications)
- 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.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
poisoning
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state of being intoxicated
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act of intoxicating
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excitement
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From intoxiquer + -tion.
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio: (file)
Noun[edit]
intoxication f (plural intoxications)
- poisoning
- the act of spreading false information or propaganda
Usage notes[edit]
In French, the word intoxication is used more broadly than in English to refer to the poisoning of an organism by a variety of means such as herbicide or poisonous gas as well as by alcohol or narcotics.
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “intoxication”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Interlingua[edit]
Noun[edit]
intoxication (uncountable)
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