alcoholic

Pluralalcoholics

1. 1
   nouncountable

   A person who cannot stop drinking alcohol and is harmed by it.

   Her uncle is an alcoholic and goes to support meetings every week.

   He admitted he was an alcoholic after years of heavy drinking.

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2. 2
   adjective

   Containing enough alcohol to count, like beer or wine.

   They only serve alcoholic drinks to adults over twenty-one.

   The party had both alcoholic drinks and fruit punch.

   Similarintoxicating

   Oppositenonalcoholic

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3. 3
   adjective

   Caused by or linked to long-term alcohol addiction.

   The doctor treated the alcoholic damage to his liver.

   Long-term drinking left him with an alcoholic heart condition.

4. 4
   adjective

   Having to do with alcohol or made using it.

   The medicine had a sharp alcoholic smell.

   Brewers rely on an alcoholic process to make beer.

5. 5
   nouncountable

   Someone who regularly drinks too much alcohol in a harmful way.

   He became an alcoholic after drinking heavily every night for years.

   An alcoholic often ignores the harm that heavy drinking causes.

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