Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Serving to intoxicate.
  • noun An intoxicant.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Intoxicating.
  • noun Anything that intoxicates, as opium.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Intoxicating.
  • noun Anything that intoxicates, as opium, alcohol, etc.; an intoxicant.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An Intoxicating agent.
  • adjective Intoxicating; inebriating.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent

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Examples

  • It's best, I think, if I'm going to have some kind of inebriant, to have drunk it up before taking my medicine, leaving m'trhoat all the more warm and coated.

    SF0 2009

  • But it seemed so much easier, then, to numb the pain with whatever inebriant she could get her hands on.

    Surrender the Dark L. A. Banks 2011

  • But it seemed so much easier, then, to numb the pain with whatever inebriant she could get her hands on.

    Surrender the Dark L. A. Banks 2011

  • Wren, he guessed, might or might not “wait for him” in Gansevoort, as she seemed to have no plans beyond the next jar of inebriant.

    Gansevoort Ridge 2009

  • It is basically a tale from the mind of an inebriant.

    Exclusive: Boondock Saints Director Troy Duffy Reveals Details From His Next Script, The Good King | /Film 2009

  • It is the socially approved drug, however, and for a very important reason: it has the edge as a "better" drug in a most significant respect, that its addictive potential is lower than heroin, and for centuries, the majority of people have used it as a mild and sometimes not so mild pleasurable inebriant without dire consequence.

    Buried Alive, The Biography of Janis Joplin Friedman, Myra 1973

  • Sacerdotes (inquit) vestri, qui seipsos exhibere deberent alijs in exemplum, in malis iacent actibus, parùm curant de Templi seruitio: habitu et studijs se conformant mundo: se inebriant vino, continentiam infringentes, cum fraude negotiantes, ac praua principibus consilia ingerentes.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584

  • YMMV, and some people will react strongly and negatively to pot, but on a general level it's a fairly mild inebriant.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Digg 2009

  • Marijuana and inebriant use in general was considered to be

    Original Signal - Transmitting Digg 2009

  • A few of them, including Williams, also believe police's announcement of Stiles's 368 blood-alcohol level at the time of his arrival in the ER was an attempt to blame Stiles 'inebriant behavior for his injury.

    independent.com stories 2009

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