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alcoholic

[al-kuh-haw-lik, -hol-ik]

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adjective

of, pertaining to, or of the nature of alcohol.

containing or using alcohol.

caused by alcohol.

suffering from alcoholism.

preserved in alcohol.

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noun

Pathology. a person suffering from alcoholism.

a person addicted to intoxicating drinks.

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Origin:
1780–90; alcohol + -ic

Related forms

al·co·hol·i·cal·ly, adverb

pre·al·co·hol·ic, adjective

sem·i·al·co·hol·ic, adjective

Synonyms
6. See drunkard.

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Example Sentences

And when a woman abuses alcohol she is likely to develop alcoholic liver diseases more quickly than a man.

So, my sister has been dating a recovered heroin addict/current alcoholic for several years.

Swedes have traditionally used alcoholic drinks not so much as a dinner refinement, but to get drunk.

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And when a woman abuses alcohol she is likely to develop alcoholic liver diseases more quickly than a man.

So, my sister has been dating a recovered heroin addict/current alcoholic for several years.

Swedes have traditionally used alcoholic drinks not so much as a dinner refinement, but to get drunk.

The pen-tailed tree shrew is the first non-human mammal known to display alcoholic behavior.

First, the alcoholic declares that he/she is helpless and therefore must rely upon a higher power.

They do not drink ice with water, but they do put it in soda and alcoholic drinks.

Avoid alcoholic beverages, over the counter drugs and unnecessary medications.

Research shows findings of similar early deaths among alcoholic women.

About ten percent of the world's population could become alcoholic.

Such alcoholic cardiomyopathy weakens the heart so that it is unable to pump blood adequately.

Drinking and not drinking for an alcoholic has never been about will power or knowing when to stop.

Most states require alcoholic beverages to be sold only through state-licensed wholesalers.

On good indicator of an alcoholic is the subtle obsession with drinking.

Easier to reduce the amount of alcoholic beverages taken in.

Another essential sacrament shared by both cultures was chicha, a fermented alcoholic brew similar to beer.

Vodka's an alcoholic beverage that's supposed to be relatively flavorless.

Perhaps, if you are an inveterate alcoholic who can't keep his hands steady.

Inheriting genetic traits does not doom a child to an alcoholic future.

It is being investigated for its benefits in helping maintain abstinence, particularly in patients with alcoholic cirrhosis.

Environmentalists say that this amounts to putting an alcoholic in charge of the vodka store.

My father was a drug addict alcoholic who frequented the local jail.

For some of the tests, the doctors were also given alcoholic drinks or nonalcoholic placebos.

The youngest son of an alcoholic former boxer returns home, where he's trained by.

For years, scientists have been reporting that a tendency to become an alcoholic can be inherited.

Among all alcoholic drinks, only cider and wine performed better.

Some of middle aged guys had that pasty alcoholic look and the old ones were too old.

For example someone mentioned the great point about absent, abusive or alcoholic parents who really can damage a child.

But in the comments that followed that post many readers called me an alcoholic.

The distinction is as seemless as a severe chronic binge drinker compared to an alcoholic.

Bring them into the outside world and they will be broken alcoholic beggars within a year or dead.

Alcoholic ketoacidosis is the buildup of ketones in the blood.

Nicotine addicted alcoholic reproduces in the usual manner.

Alcoholic neuropathy is damage to the nerves that results from excessive drinking of alcohol.

But he is the son of an alcoholic and the son of a wife of an alcoholic.

She endured back pain all her life and became depressive, lame and alcoholic.

Researchers have found that hot alcoholic drinks can induce superconductivity in iron-based compounds.

His best chum has a mum who is an alcoholic and a dad who is interested only in the horses and his club.

They must now install devices in their cars that prevent them starting if alcoholic breath is detected.

Chronic alcoholism particularly endangers the liver by causing alcoholic liver.

But breath tests can reveal a lot more than how many alcoholic beverages a person chugged.

Manson, testified today that he was in an alcoholic and.

Actually alcoholic drinks by definition have ethanol.

He was also a chain-smoking alcoholic who died prematurely.

Once an alcoholic starts drinking heavily, the mesolimbic pathway responds by cutting down its production of dopamine.

These sugary galls often ferment on the forest floor, and locals have been known to make an alcoholic beverage from them.

No one who has been kidnapped by them has ever witnessed them dringking alcoholic beverages.

She was perfect in every way, except her mother had been a serious alcoholic.

The memoir of an alcoholic who changed her life after a car crash involving her parents.

Smits knew the sugary juice tapped from sugar palms typically was fermented to produce a traditional alcoholic beverage.

One clever suggestion is to require that labels on alcoholic beverages announce the caloric content prominently.

Conscripts are generally poor, ill-educated, and sometimes already alcoholic and malnourished.

Migraine sufferers have often told skeptical physicians that red wine, but not other alcoholic drinks, brought on their headaches.

B?asik and his alleged alcoholic intoxication is of symbolic significance here.

The alcoholic will keep drinking anyway because he's addicted''.

My answer to them is that the alcoholic also wants to drink, and the heroinist also wants to shoot.

Experts say this claim may stem from the way certain alcoholic beverages are digested.

The law became a model for other cities and states and then the federal warning now posted on every alcoholic beverage container.

Hundreds of new alcoholic beverages are popping up to slake a growing thirst to sip more attractive and expensive liquor.

Being an alcoholic didn't help, though he told himself he went to bars so bartenders could recommend clients.

The horror of growing up with an alcoholic is a staple of memoirs.

For an alcoholic who is trying not to drink, a slip would be having a drink.

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World English Dictionary

alcoholic (ˌælkəˈhɒlɪk)

—n
1.	a person affected by alcoholism

—*adj*
2.	of, relating to, containing, or resulting from alcohol

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Word Origin & History

alcoholic

1790, see alcohol. Noun sense of "one who is addicted to drinking in excess" is recorded from 1891; earlier alcoholist (1888). Alcoholics Anonymous founded 1935 in Akron, Ohio, U.S. Alky is first recorded 1844 as a slang shortening of "alcoholic liquor;" 1960 in the sense of "a drunkard."

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Medical Dictionary

alcoholic al·co·hol·ic (āl'kə-hô'lĭk)
adj.

Related to or resulting from alcohol.
Containing or preserved in alcohol.
Suffering from alcoholism.

n.
A person who drinks alcoholic substances habitually and to excess or who suffers from alcoholism.

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