A liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent:
— Alcohol (or drink) ruined him.

synonyms: alcoholic beverage, alcoholic drink, inebriant, intoxicant.

Roget 959: drunkenness etc. adj.; intemperance; drinking etc. v.; inebriety^†, inebriation; ebriety^†, ebriosity^†; insobriety; intoxication; temulency^†, bibacity^†, wine bibbing; comtation^†, potation; deep potations, bacchanals, bacchanalia, libations; bender [U.S.].    oinomania^†, dipsomania; delirium tremens; alcohol, alcoholism; mania a potu [Fr.].    drink; alcoholic drinks; blue ruin [Slang], grog, port wine; punch, punch bowl; cup, rosy wine, flowing bowl; drop, drop too much; dram; beer etc. (beverage) 298; aguardiente^†; apple brandy, applejack; brandy, brandy smash [U.S.]; chain lightning [Slang], champagne, cocktail; gin, ginsling^†; highball [U.S.], peg, rum, rye, schnapps [U.S.], sherry, sling [U.S.], uisquebaugh [Ire.], usquebaugh [Scot.], whisky, xeres^†.    drunkard, sot, toper, tippler, bibber^†, wine-bibber, lush; hard drinker, gin drinker, dram drinker; soaker [Slang], sponge, tun; love pot, toss pot; thirsty soul, reveler, carouser, Bacchanal, Bacchanalian; Bacchal^†, Bacchante^†; devotee to Bacchus^†; bum [U.S.], guzzler, tavern haunter.    ... show more

Roget 388: fuel, firing, combustible.    [solid fuels] coal, wallsend^†, anthracite, culm^†, coke, carbon, charcoal, bituminous coal, tar shale; turf, peat, firewood, bobbing, faggot, log; cinder etc. (products of combustion) 384; ingle, tinder, touchwood; sulphur, brimstone; incense; port-fire; fire-barrel, fireball, brand; amadou^†, bavin^†; blind coal, glance coal; German tinder, pyrotechnic sponge, punk, smudge [U.S.]; solid fueled rocket.    [fuels for candles and lamps] wax, paraffin wax, paraffin oil; lamp oil, whale oil.    [liquid fuels] oil, petroleum, gasoline, high octane gasoline, nitromethane, petrol, gas, juice [Coll.], gasohol, alcohol, ethanol, methanol, fuel oil, kerosene, jet fuel, heating oil, number 2 oil, number 4 oil, naphtha; rocket fuel, high specific impulse fuel, liquid hydrogen, liquid oxygen, lox.    [gaseous fuels] natural gas, synthetic gas, synthesis gas, propane, butane, hydrogen.    brand, torch, fuse; wick; spill, match, light, lucifer, congreve^†, vesuvian, vesta^†, fusee, locofoco^†; linstock^†.    candle etc. (luminary) 423; oil etc. (grease) 356.    ... show more

Dutch: alcohol, drank, spraakwater
Polish: napój alkoholowy, alkohol, coś mocniejszego, procenty, napój wyskokowy, trunek

Any of a series of volatile hydroxyl compounds that are made from hydrocarbons by distillation.

Dutch: alcohol
Polish: alkohol