Definition of "inebriant" []

• Serving to intoxicate. (adjective)
• An intoxicant. (noun)

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• "It's best, I think, if I'm going to have some kind of inebriant, to have drunk it up before taking my medicine, leaving m'trhoat all the more warm and coated."
• "But it seemed so much easier, then, to numb the pain with whatever inebriant she could get her hands on."
• "Wren, he guessed, might or might not “wait for him” in Gansevoort, as she seemed to have no plans beyond the next jar of inebriant."