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cold turkey
noun as in complete and sudden withdrawal from an addictive substance
Example Sentences
Down one kidney, he’s forced to give up drinking cold turkey, but it’s not as easy as he suspects it’ll be.
Withdrawing “cold turkey” from opioids while pregnant increases the risk of preterm birth, low birth weight, and stillbirth.
Starting with a super cold turkey will result in a longer roasting time.
She started smoking again, nearly a decade after quitting cold turkey.
"We went cold turkey really, but we managed it. We've just got used to living without Russian pipeline gas," explains Dr Jack Sharples, senior research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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