Intoxication

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  • noun. Stupefaction or excitement by the action of a chemical substance.
  • noun. Exhilaration, excitement, or euphoria.
  • noun. Poisoning by a drug or toxic substance.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Poisoning.
  • noun. The act of inebriating, or the state of being inebriated; drunkenness; the state produced by drinking too much of an alcoholic liquid, or by the use of opium, hashish, or the like.
  • noun. Figuratively, high excitement of mind; uncontrollable passion; frenzy.
  • noun. Synonyms Inebriety.
  • noun. Infatuation, delirium.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A poisoning, as by a alcoholic or a narcotic substance.
  • noun. The state of being intoxicated or drunk; inebriation; ebriety; drunkenness; the act of intoxicating or making drunk.
  • noun. A high excitement of mind; an elation which rises to enthusiasm, frenzy, or madness.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A poisoning, as by a spirituous or a narcotic substance.
  • noun. The state of being intoxicated or drunk; inebriation; ebriety; drunkenness; the act of intoxicating or making drunk.
  • noun. A high excitement of mind; an elation which rises to enthusiasm, frenzy, or madness.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol
  • noun. the physiological state produced by a poison or other toxic substance
  • noun. excitement and elation beyond the bounds of sobriety
  • Word Usage
    "We have found that the essential, and we might say, primary psychological datum of war is a war-mood, that the central motive of this war-mood is a general impulse which we called the intoxication motive, and that this intoxication motive, considered generically, and in regard to its specific meaning is a craving for power and for the experience of exerting and feeling power."
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