Main entry: drink, drinking, drunkenness, crapulence, boozing
Definition: the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess
Usage: drink was his downfall
Main entry: inebriation, inebriety, insobriety, intoxication, drunkenness, tipsiness
Definition: a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol
Main entry: drunkenness, alcohol addiction, alcoholism, inebriation
Definition: 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