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- adjective Opposed to the drinking of
alcohol .
Etymologies
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Examples
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For a time, it appeared as if the antidrinking campaign had failed.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Indeed, worldwide alcohol sales have slipped because of factors such as the antidrinking lobby, the health movement and the global economic downturn.
Taste Test Ron Gluckman 2009
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The U.S. Department of Education has begun highlighting innovative antidrinking practices; high-school guidance offices now have a brochure listing model schools.
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Last month, investigators in the U.S. reported good test results for a monthly dose of the common antidrinking drug naltrexone - a medication that currently must be taken every day to be effective.
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Last month, investigators in the U.S. reported good test results for a monthly dose of the common antidrinking drug naltrexone - a medication that currently must be taken every day to be effective.
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Dying of syphilis ... in love with the opera of Bizet "to an early memory of his father grinding up the antidrinking drug Antabuse (" It makes you sick if you drink alcohol, "he writes) and forcing his long-suffering, alcoholic mother to swallow it.
The Bard of Berkeley 2009
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