alcohol has definitions from the fields of pharmacology,food,chemistry
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[ noun ] (pharmacology,food) a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent

Examples

"alcohol (or drink) ruined him"

Used in print

(Hampton Stone, The Man Who Looked Death...)

Defining sobriety in the limited sense of being free from the clinical symptoms of the effects of alcohol ingested and not_yet eliminated from the system , you are sober .

He was freshly shaved , and if there had been any alcohol in him we could never have missed detecting some scent of_it on the massive gusts of his laughter .

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[ noun ] (chemistry) any of a series of volatile hydroxyl compounds that are made from hydrocarbons by distillation
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