| 单词 | alcoholic |
| 释义 | alcoholic (once / 1762 pages) adjn Something that's alcoholic contains alcohol. At a party, the host may offer a pitcher of alcoholic punch and another of non-alcoholic punch. Use alcoholic to describe something that has alcohol in it, or otherwise has to do with alcohol. Alcoholic cider, for example, is fermented, and drinking too much can be intoxicating. The noun alcoholic means a person who's dependent on alcohol, whose drinking has become compulsive and unhealthy. This meaning developed in the late 1800s, from the earlier term alcoholist. The group Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in 1935 for alcoholics to help themselves and others quit drinking. WORD FAMILYalcoholic: alcoholically, alcoholics, nonalcoholic+/alcohol: alcoholic, alcoholise, alcoholism, alcoholize, alcohols/alcoholism: alcoholisms/alcoholize: alcoholized, alcoholizing USAGE EXAMPLESThe Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control oversees all licensing and runs the state’s liquor stores. Los Angeles Times(Jan 01, 2017) It was a phone conversation with a lady from Alcoholics Anonymous. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) Twenty years ago, nearly three-quarters of young people said it was their favorite alcoholic drink, according to surveys by Gallup and Goldman Sachs Investor Research. Wall Street Journal(Dec 31, 2016) 1adj characteristic of or containing alcohol alcoholic drinks Syn|Ant dry having a large proportion of strong liquor hard, strongbeing distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content intoxicant, intoxicatingcausing spiritous, spirituouscontaining or of the nature of alcohol wetconsisting of or trading in alcoholic liquor nonalcoholic characterized by the absence of alcohol 2adj addicted to alcohol " alcoholic expatriates in Paris"- Carl Van Doren Syn alcohol-dependent addicted compulsively or physiologically dependent on something habit-forming 3n a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually Syn|Hyper alky, boozer, dipsomaniac, lush, soaker, souse drunk, drunkard, inebriate, rummy, sot, wino a chronic drinker |
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