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单词 ebrious
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Definition of ebrious in English:

ebrious

adjective ˈiːbrɪəs
rare
  • Drunken or intoxicated.

    those young sots with the ebrious faces
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I don't intend to be in a particularly ebrious state throughout this weekend.
    • About half past six in the evening, an ebrious individual applied for towels, in company with another who seemed sober.
    • He was probably drunk when he said that, or at least fled from a sober condition to an ebrious one since nothing was happening.
    • Guests in an ebrious state will not be accommodated.
    • Ebrious moroseness, another variety of a state preceding drunkenness, is met with more in the rich.
    Synonyms
    intoxicated, inebriated, drunken, befuddled, incapable, tipsy, the worse for drink, under the influence, maudlin

Derivatives

  • ebriose

  • adjective
    rare
    • Mr. Briggs when returning home, gently, and copiously ebriose, from Epsom on his donkey, would sway about on his podgy legs.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Up came the bewitching Ferdmand, glorious, too, but old and ebriose.
      • Drunkenness in its first degree presents you with a miniature picture of the symptoms of the more advanced stages of ebriose poisoning.
      Synonyms
      intoxicated, inebriated, drunken, befuddled, incapable, tipsy, the worse for drink, under the influence, maudlin

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Latin ebrius + -ous.

 
 
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