delirium tremens

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   acute delirium caused by alcohol poisoning

   SynonymsDTs

   Broaderpsychosis

Questions about delirium tremens

What does delirium tremens mean?

delirium tremens means "acute delirium caused by alcohol poisoning".

What is another word for delirium tremens?

Close synonyms include DTs. 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 delirium tremens a common word?

delirium tremens 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.