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intoxication

noun as in inebriation

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Example Sentences

They booked him for violation of the emergency order, public intoxication and resisting arrest.

Those charges ranged in severity, from public intoxication to DWI and assault.

Arrested on a public intoxication charge and for violation of the stay-home orders, Torres couldn’t afford to pay the $150 he owed on his bond.

Now, Harmon watched her irises shaking involuntarily, a sign of intoxication.

He said he walked out the next morning with a booking document for “public intoxication” and a ticket for seditious language in his pocket.

Frias—who was arrested in 2013 for interfering with public duties and public intoxication—was not carrying a gun at the time.

I guess we know how Bacchus kept his title as the god of wine and intoxication.

Kinkade had died of “acute ethanol and diazepam intoxication”—alcohol and Valium.

Like the intoxication and the power you would feel if you were suddenly an all-knowing entity.

States all across the country are reporting skyrocketing rates of intoxication, overdoses and death.

In smoking, they swallow the fumes of the tobacco which causes intoxication for a time.

That last moment, as she stepped lightly over the threshold of the library, was a sort of climax to the intoxication of youth.

The courts are still more reluctant to admit intoxication as an excuse for criminal acts.

When she thought that he was there at hand, waiting for her, she grew numb with the intoxication of expectancy.

The danger of collapse was past for the present, but the deep sleep of utter intoxication still clung to the ruler of Asturia.

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On this page you'll find 25 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to intoxication, such as: drunkenness, inebriety, elation, euphoria, excitement, and exhilaration.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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