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intoxicant
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
intoxicant
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Certain intoxicants are culturally approved, and therefore acceptable.
▪ Despite the heavy consumption of intoxicants, no one's voice ever rose above a husky whisper.
▪ Even the desserts are intoxicants, as in sangria-poached white peaches with a pure, rich cream sorbet.
▪ The feats would have been long saved for, and would have boasted plenty of meats, sweets and intoxicants.
▪ The longer the carbon chain, the more potent the alcohol as an intoxicant.
▪ The use of alcohol as a restorative medicine is as ancient as its use as an intoxicant.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intoxicant

Intoxicant \In*tox"i*cant\, n. That which intoxicates; an intoxicating agent; as, alcohol, opium, and laughing gas are intoxicants.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
intoxicant

"liquor," 1863; see intoxicate.

Wiktionary
intoxicant

a. intoxicate. n. 1 That which intoxicates; an intoxicating agent; as, alcohol, opium and laughing gas are intoxicants. 2 poison.

WordNet
intoxicant

  1. adj. able to intoxicate [syn: intoxicating]

  2. n. a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent; "alcohol (or drink) ruined him" [syn: alcohol, alcoholic beverage, inebriant]

  3. a drug that can produce a state of intoxication

Usage examples of "intoxicant".

Just a little extra juice in one of the stronger intoxicants was enough to put you under for almost thirty hours.

Unfortunately, the effects of these intoxicants and drugs upon us were minimal.

He and the Prince tried the noropianics and other intoxicants popular with the Horseblooded.

Swivel-hipped girls and flat-bellied boysall in scant clothing revealing their astonishing grace and beautyferried trays of cocktails and various other intoxicants over carpets of crushed red velvet.

He exhorted all to join him and before long had everyone served, if not with the Yarran beer he touted, at least with some mild intoxicant.

Intoxicants lock the imbiber in the present, the here and now, without regard for the future, without consideration of the past.

Then more intoxicants: beverages, inhalants, tablets, all promising instant happiness.

There was a faint scent on the breeze that Younger recognized as norna, an opiate forbidden to those in service to Allic, as an intoxicant and aphrodisiac too powerful for most to handle.

He could convert mashed pineapple meat into alcohol, producing a lethal-smelling transparent intoxicant with the kick of a mule, but which, when mixed with pineapple juice, didn't taste half bad.

Or milk, or boot rear, 01 simitar But I would not care for an intoxicant.