intoxicant
[in-tok-si-kuh nt]
- an intoxicating agent, as alcoholic liquor or certain drugs.
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- intoxicating or exhilarating: the clear, intoxicant air of the mountains.
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Origin of intoxicant
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Examples from the Web for intoxicant
Contemporary Examples
The use of cannabis as an intoxicant began to take hold in America in the early 1900s.
Koon: Because I believed that this individual was under the influence of some intoxicant.
Historical Examples
Now, cheese on an empty mouse stomach acts as an intoxicant.
"Wee Tim'rous Beasties"Douglas English
Royal was teasing me, sure of my refusal to indulge in any intoxicant.
PatchworkAnna Balmer Myers
Which it did, as a matter of fact, but it was a tonic, 'stead of actin' like an intoxicant.
Rimrock TrailJ. Allan Dunn
Upon such occasions the only intoxicant was tobacco or dakka.
In the East it is commonly used as an intoxicant, either by smoking it, like tobacco, or swallowing it.
intoxicant
- anything that causes intoxication
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- causing intoxication
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Word Origin and History for intoxicant
n.
"liquor," 1863; see intoxicate.
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
intoxicant
(ĭn-tŏk′sĭ-kənt)- An agent that intoxicates, especially an alcoholic beverage.
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