Thesaurus results for INEBRIATION

inebriation

noun

Definition of inebriation

as in alcoholism

the condition of being drunk students who seem to think uninhibited inebriation is an essential part of the college experience

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Recent Examples of inebriation Ultimately, jurors sided with prosecutors whose 2023 criminal indictment outlined numerous instances of teens getting injured as a result of their inebriation under her watch. — Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 26 May 2026 Spike Jones and His City Slickers recorded their version with a flurry of wacky sound effects that made the inebriation seem even more soused. — David Morgan, CBS News, 14 May 2026 The sources told the magazine that Patel frequently drinks to the point of conspicuous intoxication, and that his security detail has at times struggled to wake him due to apparent inebriation. — Garrett Downs, CNBC, 19 Apr. 2026 Some 20,000 delirious, singing spectators with flags of every sort in various states of inebriation had gotten their money’s worth, and then some. — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2026

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Genetic deviations that impair the processing of alcohol turn out to be associated with lower rates of alcoholism.

— Shayla Love, New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2026
Other contributing factors included hypertensive cardiovascular disease and cirrhosis due to alcoholism.

— Sofi Zeman August 25, Kansas City Star, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of alcoholism

Noun

Prosecutors, however, may also prove intoxication by demonstrating that a person did not have the normal use of his mental or physical faculties.

— Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Aug. 2026
He was then placed into custody for disorderly public intoxication and transported to Broward County’s main jail.

— Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of intoxication

Noun

Authorities say Kristina Lopez Lujan is now charged with simple battery, public drunkenness, and disorderly conduct.

— Dan Raby, CBS News, 12 June 2026
States have generally applied Clean Slate to non-violent, low-level offenses like writing a bad check, drug possession or public drunkenness.

— Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 30 May 2026

Definition of drunkenness

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