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inebriated
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    To a self-possessed young man inebriated with the unfolding drama of his own life, all of this held enormous appeal.†  (source)
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    It was teeming with inebriated ants.†  (source)
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    He is inebriated.†  (source)
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    "When your mother arrived," he says in a confidential tone, "she was quite inebriated ....You don't seem surprised."†  (source)
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    Although she converses in what seems a frank enough manner, she manages to tell me as little as possible, or as little as possible of what I want to learn; although I have managed to ascertain a good deal about her family situation as a child, and about her crossing of the Atlantic, as an emigrant; but none of it is very far out of the ordinary — only the usual poverty and hardships, etc. Those who believe in the hereditary nature of insanity might take some comfort in the fact that her father was an inebriate, and possibly an arsonist as well; but despite several theories to the contrary, I am far from being convinced that such tendencies are necessarily inherited.†  (source)
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    There is, in fact, in the matter of inebriety, white magic and black magic; wine is only white magic.†  (source)
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    Jones too was dead — he had died in an inebriates' home in another part of the country.†  (source)
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    There was something inebriating in the suppleness of this feat.†  (source)
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    He managed to get the driver of the train drunk as well and was finishing a bottle of gin every hour walking up and down the carriages almost naked, but keeping his shoes on this time and hitting the state of inebriation during which he would start rattling off wonderful limericks—thus keeping the passengers amused.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    One afternoon, Mr Charles to his shame and regret had allowed himself to become inebriated in the company of two fellow guests — gentlemen I shall merely call Mr Smith and Mr Jones since they are likely to be still remembered in certain circles.†  (source)
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    Bell's eye on me to see I don't get too much, being explained, when I was out of the room, as the rather embarrassing local inebriate who's being taken in because his mother is so charming?†  (source)
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    He was a man who would have made a success of life a century and a half ago when conversation was a passport to good company and inebriety no bar.†  (source)
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    Much to my relief, there are no celebrated murderesses among them, but only what the worthy Dr. Workman of Toronto terms "the innocent insane," as well as the usual sufferers from nervous complaints, and the inebriates and syphilitics; although of course one does not find the same afflictions among the well-to-do as among the poor.†  (source)
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