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intoxicant

/in-tok-si-kuhnt/US // ɪnˈtɒk sɪ kənt //UK // (ɪnˈtɒksɪkənt) //

酒精,毒药,烟酒,烟草

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an intoxicating agent, as alcoholic liquor or certain drugs.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : intoxicating or exhilarating: the clear, intoxicant air of the mountains.

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Examples

  • The mixture of giddy vulnerability and sharp improv can be an intoxicant, a solid replacement for the kind you’d normally be purchasing throughout a barhopping evening.

  • The use of cannabis as an intoxicant began to take hold in America in the early 1900s.

  • Sikhs are also not supposed to consume alcohol, which is viewed as a distracting intoxicant.

  • Koon: Because I believed that this individual was under the influence of some intoxicant.

  • She could have swooned, so intoxicant was her wonder and her solemn joy and her yearning after righteousness in love.

  • The fever of the game flamed in her cheeks and eyes, and it got into her blood and into her brain like an intoxicant.

  • Royal was teasing me, sure of my refusal to indulge in any intoxicant.

  • The giving, selling, or trading of any sort of intoxicant to the Indians was absolutely prohibited.

  • Whether the wine or the dance were the chief intoxicant, a tipsiness of mood prevailed everywhere.