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Crapulence

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Sickness caused by excessive eating or drinking.

n. Excessive indulgence; intemperance.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. sickness or indisposition caused by excessive eating or drinking

n. intemperance; debauchery; excessive indulgence

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The sickness occasioned by intemperance; surfeit.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. Drunkenness; a surfeit, or the sickness following drunkenness.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess

Word Usage

"Jonathan Karl is back today, as we wait for Christiane Amanpour to join us on Sunday and either get inexorably sucked into its crapulence and end up looking like the "Nightly ... at the Bellagio" version of her former self, or make my Sunday mornings a much better place."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

intemperance intemperateness

Hyponym

drinking bout

Form

crapulent crapula crapulous

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

surfeit excess