(n.) The state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic liquor; intoxication; inebriety; -- used of the casual state or the habit.
(n.) Disorder of the faculties, resembling intoxication by liquors; inflammation; frenzy; rage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Men in a halfway-house sample had more detoxication readmissions but fewer drunkenness arrests in a 3-month follow-up period than did their matched controls; the total number of documented drunkenness episodes did not differ in the two groups.
(2) In terms of attitudes towards drunkenness, however, differences between the two groups are slight.
(3) It is London not the provinces that is drunkenly dependent on public money.
(4) Twenty-nine subjects were interviewed and asked to think aloud their responses to four alcohol items: frequency of drinking, average quantity, frequency of drinking over 5 drinks, and frequency of drunkenness.
(5) Also in the Lords amongst the phalanx of red leather benches is a solitary seat curbed by an armrest provided for a perpetually drunken Lord (hence the saying?)
(6) Offenders admitted to the 14-day program were significantly less likely to be rearrested for drunken driving (10 vs 20%).
(7) Page, an army veteran whose record was marred by drunkenness and a failure to report for duty, walked into the temple just before 10.30am and opened fire with a 9mm pistol.
(8) Six years ago, officials dismissed as ridiculous allegations that he had shot a drunken Russian bear that had been plied with honey and vodka.
(9) According to a footnote of the directions for driver selection tests ("Eignungsrichtlinien") of December 1, 1982, a medical and psychological examination can be disposed also with first drunkenness offenders.
(10) ( Glenn Willis ) ‘Often the people who have the least are the most generous’ I’ve slept rough in London twice having drunkenly missed my last train home.
(11) Perry said Lehmberg, who is based in Austin, should resign after she was arrested and pleaded guilty to drunken driving in April 2013.
(12) Gordon Brown's speech played deliberately and directly to the very real fears of many of those people, whether on drunken louts in the high street or teenage mums or financial insecurity, but the paper ignores all that and lands the blow it has been planning for months.
(13) Maybe the movie ends with the rainbow promise and a drunken I Will Survive party.
(14) Employees accessed Chaffetz’s 2003 application for a secret service job starting 18 minutes after the start of a congressional hearing in March about the latest scandal involving drunken behavior by senior agents.
(15) In comparison only 34.5% were judged highly drunken on medical examination.
(16) Recorded criminal offence, receipt of public assistance, and conviction for drunkenness usually appeared later.
(17) A hitherto unpublished report on the flight of Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess – two prominent members of the Cambridge spy ring – more than 60 years ago, says they could have been suspected sooner had the Foreign Office linked their bouts of extreme drunken behaviour to their spying.
(18) Premeditated murders are also rare in Finland (roughly 40 per year), but homicides sadly occur out of quarrels between socially marginalised drunken adult men.
(19) Worst of times Losing the Olympic 800m to great rival Steve Ovett in 1980; being falsely accused in the tabloid press of drunken behaviour in 1984 (he went on to win an out-of-court settlement).
(20) The catalogue of blunders produced an angry response from congressmen in both parties who questioned the competence of Pierson, who was herself brought in to clean up the elite unit after earlier scandals in which drunken officers were found passed out during a presidential trip to Amsterdam and visiting prostitutes in Colombia.
Inebriation
Definition:
(n.) The condition of being inebriated; intoxication; figuratively, deprivation of sense and judgment by anything that exhilarates, as success.
Example Sentences:
(1) It begins with the origins of treatment in the self-help temperance movement of the 1830s and 1840s and the founding of the first inebriate homes, tracing in the United States the transformation of these small, private, spiritually inclined programs into the medically dominated, quasipublic inebriate asylums of the late 19th century.
(2) Both of the alcohol-containing drinks caused mild-to-moderate inebriation, but gin and slimline tonic had no significant effect on either blood-glucose or plasma-insulin levels.
(3) A very inebriated Emin mumbled incoherently that "no real people" would be watching and that she wanted to go be with her mum and friends.
(4) Inebriate asylums took inspiration from insane asylums and were large, public, coercive and isolated in rural areas.
(5) Between September 1986 and July 1988 the cases and their controls were interviewed by one and the same investigator using a questionnaire on drinking habits: quantity and type of beverage consumed, time of onset and frequency of use and whether they had manifested symptoms of inebriation or of alcohol dependence previously.
(6) Prohibition destroyed what public inebriate institutions existed.
(7) Frequency of beer, wine, and spirits drinking and inebriation by alcohol were associated with serum lipids and blood pressure in 14,667 free-living men and women aged 20 to 54 years.
(8) These patients cannot be identified upon presentation, however, and these data cannot support routine use of gastric emptying in the detoxification of inebriated patients.
(9) In multiple wound fatalities, alcohol inebriation was less common both among victims and perpetrators.
(10) The success of the orange revolution has promoted a kind of democratic inebriation, in which random demonstrations around the world are each sold as a new dawn of freedom in the Ukrainian tradition.
(11) It is noted that early research portrayed alcoholics as occupationally unstable but was based on biased samples of alcoholic psychotics and arrested public inebriates.
(12) We also conclude that drugs, particularly the benzodiazepines or cannabinoids, may be commonly encountered in drunken drivers, suspected of being inebriated by ethanol but no other toxicants.
(13) In 1971 there was a change in legislation permitting police to take public inebriates to detoxication centers.
(14) Because it causes immediate pain when taken into the mouth, strong mineral acid is less often swallowed than corrosive alkali, but psychotic, inebriated or determined individuals may consume lethal amounts.
(15) Neutrophils isolated from blood samples of healthy abstaining donors, which had been exposed to ethanol or to plasma from inebriated patients for 16 to 20 h, showed no loss of elastase activity or superoxide production.
(16) Most will be aware of the grotty details of the case by now, with Evans emerging as a “big night out!” type of sexual predator, who viewed inebriated young women as fair game.
(17) France's Europe-1 radio aired an interview with the passenger, identified only by her first name Daniele, in which she said that Depardieu appeared inebriated and announced: "I need to piss, I need to piss."
(18) This paper analyses two contemporaneous types of 19th-century North American inebriate institutions and attempts by their promoters to develop a public treatment system.
(19) This chapter recounts what is known about the international development of treatment institutions for inebriates in the century before 1940.
(20) The observation that those animals that drank their daily fluid in 10 min demonstrated higher peak blood-alcohol levels than the distributed animals supports the conclusion that a centrally mediated aversive state of inebriation must be present to produce a conditioned aversion.