delirium tremens
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An autopsy later found that she had been experiencing delirium tremens caused by withdrawal from diazepam, an anti-anxiety medication that P.T.S. staff members said they were never informed she was taking.
From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2016
The book records a period of acute psychological and spiritual disorientation, delirium tremens, the near-destruction of a literary intelligence, starring Kerouac as Jack Duluoz, “bloody ‘King of the Beatniks.’”
From Slate • Jan. 15, 2013
In place of the cold, however, Uncle Peter now had acute indigestion, nervous procrastination, delirium tremens and a spavin on his off fetlock.
From You Can Search Me by McHugh, Hugh
It is Wilkie Collins gone mad, Gaboriau in extremis, Du Boisgobey suffering from delirium tremens.
From The Crimson Blind by White, Fred M. (Fred Merrick)
Horr′or-strick′en, -struck, struck with horror.—The horrors, extreme depression: delirium tremens.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various