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UK
/ɪntˈɒksɪkənt/
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NOUN
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a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent
alcohol (or drink) ruined him - a drug that can produce a state of intoxication
ADJECTIVE
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causing intoxication
an intoxicating drink
How To Use intoxicant In A Sentence
- Drugs include any intoxicant other than alcohol therefore even solvent abuse and driving may be covered by this offence.
- Beer was the intoxicant of choice in the Colonies, just as it had been back in England.
- You may trot around with a silver bunch of grapes on your lapel, peddling intoxicants to expense-account tosspots and huff when I quibble at the mark-up but I have just published the novelistic fruit of 35 years of miserable introversion.
- Is the baby boomer electorate so puritanical that they would punish progressive politicians who voiced support for liberalizing or legalizing intoxicants, or simply marijuana?
- But what about other intoxicants such as cocaine, cannabis resin or even the so called harmless prescription drugs.
- There, he was made to drink an intoxicant, which made unconscious.
- For the first days of Lent, and perhaps for the entire period, devout Buddhists will abstain from intoxicants, certain foods, harsh language, deceitful deeds, and make a concentrated effort not to harm any living creature.
- Another intoxicant is “Sabzi,” dried hemp-leaves, poppy-seed, cucumber heed, black pepper and cardamoms rubbed down in a mortar with a wooden pestle, and made drinkable by adding milk, ice-cream, etc. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- Every relationship here is colored by the influence of these intoxicants, and every aspect of every relationship.
- They pointed out that many cough syrups were already being abused in the state, with young people consuming them as intoxicants.