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1. Habitual intoxication; prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms
   - alcoholism, alcohol addiction, drunkenness
    
2. A temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol
   - drunkenness, inebriety, intoxication, tipsiness, insobriety

Derived forms: inebriations

Type of: drug addiction, temporary state, white plague

Antonym: soberness

Encyclopedia: Inebriation