noun

• Drunkenness; intoxication.

  ‘they were in an advanced state of inebriation’

  More example sentences

  • ‘While all of these women are good drinkers, they practice forms of intoxication which extend well beyond their states of alcoholic inebriation.’
  • ‘I have also carefully considered whether or not they are inaccurate historians because of their alleged level of alcohol inebriation that night.’
  • ‘He added that people had also indulged in various cocktails of drugs in order to reach a state of complete inebriation.’
  • ‘Now if this was not a family newspaper, I may use a stronger word than ‘drunk’ as it really doesn't do justice to the state of inebriation which makes us what we are.’
  • ‘While on subject of inebriation, am convinced your horoscope writer must have been half-cut when he wrote yesterday's entry for Taurus.’

  Synonyms

  intoxication, drunkenness, insobriety, tipsiness

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