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/ˈælkəhˌɔlˌɪzəm/ Listen

noun

alcoholism n.

(Med.) Chronic excessive drinking of alcoholic beverages that leads to social, occupational, psychological and physiological problems.

(Med.) Psychological and physiological dependence on alcohol; sudden cessation of drinking may lead to withdrawal symptoms.

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Etymology of 'Alcoholism'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Alcoholism" Quotes from Famous Books

... the work of undoing. It is a sorry tale, save for the devotion of the two girls and their brother for their father and his love for them. The mother was only a mother in name. She became a confirmed and helpless victim of alcoholism, and lingered on for some years, existing in a sanitarium or cared for by a ...

— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 9 - Subtitle: Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers • Elbert Hubbard

... their moral sense, both become idle; the bad in both is ripened into rankness, and makes itself villainously manifest at all seasons; the good is atrophied, and finally dies. Goodness may take an unconscionable time a-dying, but it is sentenced to death by the fates from the moment when alcoholism sets in, and the execution is only a matter ...

— The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions - Joints In Our Social Armour • James Runciman

... friends at the bar of the Last Chance, and he pressed his late passenger to join them. But alcoholism was not one of Mr. Hyde's weaknesses. The best of Bill's bad habits was much worse than drink; he had learned from experience that liquor put a traitor's tongue in his head, and in consequence he was ...

— Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories • Rex Beach

... under his leadership in their own. Tar had frequently given him lines, and Squirts had boxed his ears. They could not imagine how the Chapter had made such a mistake. No one could be expected to forget that he was the son of a bankrupt linendraper, and the alcoholism of Cooper seemed to increase the disgrace. It was understood that the Dean had supported his candidature with zeal, so the Dean would probably ask him to dinner; but would the pleasant little dinners in ...

— Of Human Bondage • W. Somerset Maugham

... with pride as we refer to our ancestors, whose lives were marked by an eternal combat between malignant alcoholism and trichinosis. Many a Saxon would have filled a drunkard's grave, but wabbled so in his gait that he walked ...

— Comic History of England • Bill Nye

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