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  • noun Plural form of intoxication.

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Examples

  • I sketched my first contacts with alcohol, told of my first intoxications and revulsions, and pointed out always the one thing that in the end had won me over -- namely, the accessibility of alcohol.

    Chapter 1 2010

  • Elwood Johns, a mathematical genius, became the Intoxicator, who can share his intoxications with a belch.

    The Freshmen Return | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009

  • This music-poem is one from our new album, called "pour it out" but I think it belongs among the 'childhood intoxications' as it evokes the same kinds of rising excitement, as well as acting as an unofficial manifesto for open mindedness, the kind that slows down and explores, perhaps against your initial instincts to rush on.

    Rick Holland: Top 10 Aural and Poetic Delights Rick Holland 2011

  • This music-poem is one from our new album, called "pour it out" but I think it belongs among the 'childhood intoxications' as it evokes the same kinds of rising excitement, as well as acting as an unofficial manifesto for open mindedness, the kind that slows down and explores, perhaps against your initial instincts to rush on.

    Rick Holland: Top 10 Aural and Poetic Delights Rick Holland 2011

  • This music-poem is one from our new album, called "pour it out" but I think it belongs among the 'childhood intoxications' as it evokes the same kinds of rising excitement, as well as acting as an unofficial manifesto for open mindedness, the kind that slows down and explores, perhaps against your initial instincts to rush on.

    Rick Holland: Top 10 Aural and Poetic Delights Rick Holland 2011

  • Serious adverse effects result when the amount ingested exceeds 50-175 mg/kg of body weight. 1 Potentially lethal intoxications occur with ingestions exceeding 500 mg/kg. 2 The infrequency of pure salicylate overdoses allows its complex nature to be underestimated.

    Aspirin: effects, poisoning 2010

  • This music-poem is one from our new album, called "pour it out" but I think it belongs among the 'childhood intoxications' as it evokes the same kinds of rising excitement, as well as acting as an unofficial manifesto for open mindedness, the kind that slows down and explores, perhaps against your initial instincts to rush on.

    Rick Holland: Top 10 Aural and Poetic Delights Rick Holland 2011

  • Then in the evenings, she was expected to listen to Mr. Lane lecturing on the barbarism of the family unit and the predatory nature of women and the evil intoxications of maternal love.

    Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010

  • A wicked town - its sins are the sins of opium and hemp and jealousy and intrigue, of battle, murder and sudden death, of gambling and strange intoxications, the lust of revenge.

    Dear Carl Ginny Woods 2010

  • The law looks more sympathetically on involuntary intoxications.

    Dr. Peter Breggin: Medication Madness: How Psychiatric Drugs Cause Violence, Suicide, and Crime 2009

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