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Definition of dipsomania in English: dipsomanianoun ˌdɪpsə(ʊ)ˈmeɪnɪəˌdɪpsəˈmeɪniə mass nounAlcoholism, specifically in a form characterized by intermittent bouts of craving for alcohol. 酗酒(特别指间发性嗜酒) Example sentencesExamples - The good news is I was already in therapy because of her dipsomania, and it was a free program!
- Most of the world exists between the extremes of abstinence (Indonesia and Yemen bring up the rear) and the dipsomania of a Slovenia or a South Korea.
- He died of drink - not the social drinking which leads so often to ruin here - but the fiery, passionate dipsomania which is a common disease even in the very best circles of the Scandinavian countries.
- Alongside Faye Dunaway, Rourke trashed his glamorous image to drag the audience into an abyss of dipsomania.
- Did I mention I have fairly severe dipsomania?
- He gossips about the dipsomania in town whilst tracking down and smashing stills.
- These characters could inhabit an early Waugh but not a later one, where dipsomania is not a joke but a debilitating disease that wrecks lives.
- He suffered from dipsomania (excessive bouts of drinking) and died at the age of 42.
- When he sings about his marauding dipsomania and the opposite sex tearing his heart from his body, then stamping and twisting their heel into his hyper-sensitive organ on the squalid street, it rings true.
- It's a beverage selection that neither Flandrau nor Fitzgerald, kindred spirits in dipsomania, would have approved of.
- Blair spends much of the book whining about his dipsomania and sexually perverted thoughts.
- But for Blairites to attack Brown for networking, briefing the press and installing placemen is a little like an alcoholic accusing a social drinker of dipsomania.
Synonyms drunkenness, intoxication, inebriation, tipsiness
Derivativesnoundɪpsəˈmeɪnɪak An alcoholic, especially one who experiences intermittent bouts of craving for alcohol. 酗酒(特别指间发性嗜酒) surely no one would employ a dipsomaniac as a barman Example sentencesExamples - Danny was downbeat and self-absorbed, reeling from one personal incident to the next like a ship without a compass, and his friends were a mixed bunch of dipsomaniacs and egotists.
- At the tube a group of dipsomaniacs chose to come to a halt right in front of ticket barrier I was trying to get through.
- When all the local timber was harvested, the loggers would move on, leaving their ramshackles behind, and by 1915 skid row came to mean a cheap, disreputable district, usually populated by dives and dipsomaniacs.
adjective In that time, he's chronicled the carnage of teenage psychopaths and femme fatales, dipsomaniacal tramps and millionaire dope fiends. Example sentencesExamples - This prefigured emerging gendered notions of intemperance which regarded drunkenness as basically a male vice that afflicted women through the abuse visited upon them by dipsomaniacal husbands and fathers.
- But although New Yorkers tell tales about great aunts and dipsomaniacal uncles carried off to Bellevue, and the guides on Circle Line tour boats describe it as a mental institution, Bellevue is a general hospital.
OriginMid 19th century: from Greek dipso- (from dipsa 'thirst') + -mania. RhymesAlbania, balletomania, bibliomania, crania, egomania, erotomania, kleptomania, Lithuania, Lusitania, mania, Mauritania, megalomania, miscellanea, monomania, nymphomania, Pennsylvania, Pomerania, pyromania, Rainier, Romania, Ruritania, Tasmania, Transylvania, Urania Definition of dipsomania in US English: dipsomanianounˌdɪpsəˈmeɪniəˌdipsəˈmānēə Alcoholism, specifically in a form characterized by intermittent bouts of craving for alcohol. 酗酒(特别指间发性嗜酒) Example sentencesExamples - But for Blairites to attack Brown for networking, briefing the press and installing placemen is a little like an alcoholic accusing a social drinker of dipsomania.
- Most of the world exists between the extremes of abstinence (Indonesia and Yemen bring up the rear) and the dipsomania of a Slovenia or a South Korea.
- Alongside Faye Dunaway, Rourke trashed his glamorous image to drag the audience into an abyss of dipsomania.
- These characters could inhabit an early Waugh but not a later one, where dipsomania is not a joke but a debilitating disease that wrecks lives.
- He suffered from dipsomania (excessive bouts of drinking) and died at the age of 42.
- It's a beverage selection that neither Flandrau nor Fitzgerald, kindred spirits in dipsomania, would have approved of.
- The good news is I was already in therapy because of her dipsomania, and it was a free program!
- He gossips about the dipsomania in town whilst tracking down and smashing stills.
- When he sings about his marauding dipsomania and the opposite sex tearing his heart from his body, then stamping and twisting their heel into his hyper-sensitive organ on the squalid street, it rings true.
- Did I mention I have fairly severe dipsomania?
- He died of drink - not the social drinking which leads so often to ruin here - but the fiery, passionate dipsomania which is a common disease even in the very best circles of the Scandinavian countries.
- Blair spends much of the book whining about his dipsomania and sexually perverted thoughts.
Synonyms drunkenness, intoxication, inebriation, tipsiness
OriginMid 19th century: from Greek dipso- (from dipsa ‘thirst’) + -mania. |