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intoxicant [ in-tok -si-kuh nt ] SHOW IPA
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noun
an intoxicating agent, as alcoholic liquor or certain drugs. adjective
intoxicating or exhilarating: the clear, intoxicant air of the mountains.
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Origin of intoxicant 1860–65; <Medieval Latin
intoxicant- (stem of
intoxicāns ), present participle of
intoxicāre to poison. See
in-2 ,
toxicant
OTHER WORDS FROM intoxicant non·in·tox·i·cant, adjective
Words nearby intoxicant into thin air ,
in toto ,
Intourist ,
in tow ,
intown ,
intoxicant ,
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intoxicated ,
intoxicating ,
intoxication ,
intoxicative
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How to use intoxicant in a sentence The availability of such concentrated intoxicant s is something our ancestors never had to deal with.
The country’s biggest hemp companies have largely stayed out of the Delta-8-THC craze and are increasingly worried about the hemp-derived intoxicant market.
Hemp processors continue to have access to cheap materials to make hemp intoxicant s with the price of CBD isolate remaining at around $500 a kilo in August of this year, down from over $4,400 in August 2019, according to Hemp Benchmarks.
The Farm Bill’s broad language appears to say that these other cannabinoids, many of which are potent intoxicant s, are federally legal as long as they are produced from a hemp plant.
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.
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British Dictionary definitions for intoxicant
noun
anything that causes intoxication
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