drunkenness

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My friends and I have found the level of drunkenness really all depends on how quickly you drink your first 2-3 drinks.

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Quick take

a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of drunkenness gathered in one view.

noun

a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol

noun

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

noun

the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess; "drink was his downfall"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for drunkenness.

noun

a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol

noun

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

noun

the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess; "drink was his downfall"

See also: drink, drinking, boozing, crapulence

Example sentences

My friends and I have found the level of drunkenness really all depends on how quickly you drink your first 2-3 drinks.

She goes on to speculate that these decisions make sense in the context of near-permanent drunkenness.

Having been to a few github meetups in SF, they're largely sober affairs - I haven't observed much alcoholism or drunkenness.

Here in Germany drunkenness can reduce your sentence and your criminal responsibility.

But assuming that drunkenness lasts much longer than it takes to send the FriendNet messages, you could be sure that if the character was not drunk before and after, then the messages in between were also valid.

Fighting for the eight-hour workday amounted to fighting against this perception.> The eight-hour day, another said, would encourage "loafing and gambling, rioting, debauchery, and drunkenness.

They'll rightfully think it was barbaric and tragic that we let thousands of people died each year in accidents caused by distraction, drunkenness, exhaustion, and plain old human error, all at the hands of people granted the right to operate killing machines by way of a test passable by the average teenager.