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# intoxication

noun (intoxication); uncountable

«intoxication» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Intoxication is being drunk, or affected by alcohol or drugs so that you cannot think or move properly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intoxication/#m1)
2. Intoxication can also mean being poisoned by a harmful substance. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intoxication/#m2)
3. (literary) Intoxication is a strong, exciting, dizzy feeling, as if you were drunk with joy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intoxication/#m3)

### In the lessons

In health and safety lessons it names the danger of alcohol and drugs; in law and the news, «driving under intoxication»; in stories, «the intoxication of victory». It tells the reader that someone's mind is not clear.

### Examples

- Intoxication makes it dangerous to drive a car. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intoxication/#x1)
- The doctor treated him for alcohol intoxication. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intoxication/#x2)
- Water intoxication can happen if someone drinks far too much water too fast. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intoxication/#x3)
- The team felt the intoxication of winning the cup. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intoxication/#x4)
- Some plants can cause intoxication in pets. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intoxication/#x5)
- Police tested the driver for intoxication. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intoxication/#x6)
- Intoxication slows down a person's reactions. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intoxication/#x7)
- Intoxication is not so much an evil to be dreaded or remembered with shame, as a joy to be fondly anticipated, or classed with the happy memories of the past. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intoxication/#x8)

### Note

Uncountable: no «an». Verb: intoxicate; adjective: intoxicated (drunk, formal). Contains «toxic», meaning poisonous.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «intoxication» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intoxication/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«intoxication» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/intoxication.html) on Mova free.