alcohol abuse

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   excessive use of alcohol and alcoholic drinks

   Synonymsalcoholic abusealcoholism abuse

   Broadersubstance abuse

Questions about alcohol abuse

What does alcohol abuse mean?

alcohol abuse means "excessive use of alcohol and alcoholic drinks".

What is another word for alcohol abuse?

Close synonyms include alcoholic abuse, alcoholism abuse. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is alcohol abuse a common word?

alcohol abuse is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.