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US
/ˈæɫkəˌhɔˌɫɪzəm/
]
[ UK /ˈælkəhˌəʊlɪzəm/ ]
[ UK /ˈælkəhˌəʊlɪzəm/ ]
NOUN
- habitual intoxication; prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms
- an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess
How To Use alcoholism In A Sentence
- Although alcoholism remains the number one dependency problem among judges and lawyers, the face of addiction continues to change.
- At the vertex is a medical student named Karlanner (played by Stephen Barker Turner), a kind of emblematic conflicted "good German" - leftishly inclined, living with the Jewish girlfriend who rescued him from alcoholism. A Lost Voice Surfaces From A Sinister Interlude
- Most patients who are suffering from alcoholism have considerable personal and social difficulties in addition.
- Kerala has less crime and alcoholism than elsewhere in India.
- It is only too true that alcoholism, cocainism, and other supposed means of getting beyond a monotonous daily life are becoming increasingly prevalent among women.
- Given his mental-health problems, the loss of his girlfriend and his battle with alcoholism, it would seem he has had more than his fill of heartache; consequently The Kiss of Morning is a splenetic, purgative record.
- His alcoholism took a toll on his enigmatic, sphinx-like charm.
- Formication also occurs in alcoholism and can be a symptom of drug toxicity, particularly from overuse of cocaine and amphetamines.
- Some people may inherit a tendency to alcoholism.
- Alcoholism is a thief of health, mental sanity and human dignity. Dr T.P.Chia