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intoxication

poisoning, intoxication

noun an-tox-ee-kah-SYOHN Rare
Body & Health Health & Illness

Also means

propaganda, indoctrination (figurative)

Usage Note

Intoxication is a 'false friend': in French it primarily means poisoning (food poisoning is intoxication alimentaire), not drunkenness, which is ivresse. The figurative sense of being 'intoxicated' by propaganda or ideology is also common in formal French. The verb is intoxiquer; the informal clipping intox means disinformation.

Examples

"Elle a eu une intoxication alimentaire."

Natural Translation

She had food poisoning.

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