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delirium tremens

NOUN
  1. acute delirium caused by alcohol poisoning

How To Use delirium tremens In A Sentence

  • Your only comfort lay in the forced reflection, that, real as he looked, the poor caitiff was but imaginary, a bit of painted canvass, whom no delirium tremens, nor so much as a retributive headache, awaited, on the morrow.
  • A man doesn't get delirium tremens even if he smokes more than is good for him; he doesn't become a debased mortal; there is nothing about tobacco which makes a man beat his wife or assault his mother-in-law -- rather the reverse, in fact, for tobacco is a soother and a quietener of the passions, and many a man, I daresay, has been prevented from doing rash things in the way of retaliation, when he has lit his pipe and had a good think over his affairs. The Social History of Smoking
  • Contemplate your incarnate Delirium Tremens!
  • It was just as real to me as is the snake beheld by a man in delirium tremens. Chapter 11
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