alcohol /alˈkə-hol/

1. A liquid generated by the fermentation of sugar or other saccharine matter and forming the intoxicating element of fermented liquors
2. Any drink containing this
3. A general term for a class of hydrocarbon compounds analogous to common (or ethyl) alcohol, in which a hydroxyl group is substituted for an atom of hydrogen
4. A fine powder, esp a sublimate (obsolete)
5. Hence (obsolete) an essence, a distillate

alcoholˈic adjective

1. Of, like, containing or due to alcohol
2. Relating to alcoholism

Someone addicted to excessive drinking of alcohol

alˈcoholism noun

1. Alcoholic poisoning
2. The condition suffered by an alcoholic

alcoholīzāˈtion or alcoholīsāˈtion noun

• to the contrary
• to the death
• to the effect that
• to the end of the chapter
• to the exclusion of
• to the fore
• to the full
• to the good
• to the hilt
• to the last
• to the letter
• to the life
• to the manner born
• to the marrow
• to the nines
• to the point
• to the purpose
• t'other
• tother
• to the skies
• to the top of one's bent
• to the tune of
• to the turn of a hair
• to the very fibre of one's being
• to the wide