Rapid onset of confusion caused by alcohol withdrawal; usually lasts for 2–3 days; symptoms include nightmare, agitation, global confusion, disorientation, hallucination, fever, high blood pressure, heavy sweating.
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1 The hallucinations of delirium tremens are the results obtained in extreme intoxication.
2 The intercom hookup was working perfectly, with results comparable to delirium tremens .
3 Abner Holden died suddenly last year in a fit of delirium tremens .
4 At the Green Emerald I met my first case of delirium tremens .
5 Hoag believed that he was intoxicated, that delirium tremens had overtaken him.
1 The Colonel was raving in the frenzy of alcoholic delirium , writhing in horrible convulsions and yelling: He has killed me!
1 I escaped with gashes and, later, a minor case of the shakes .
2 To this day, when I think about it, I get the shakes .
3 Afterward he collapsed onto the deck and gave in to the shakes .
4 Then the shakes and the gulps and the need to throw up.
5 We've both got the shakes ! the husband exclaimed on hearing the news.
1 More protection from the horrors of flooding will benefit thousands of homes.
2 Others committed suicide rather than subject themselves to the horrors of investigation.
3 Devastation is often the least of the horrors marching in its train.
4 She forced herself to think about the horrors of the previous day.
5 He tied himself in knots trying to understand the horrors of war.
6 Here is the germ of all the horrors of the mediaeval imagination.
7 It fascinates me that could happen after the horrors of the war.
8 At the present day the horrors of the Cape have somewhat abated.
9 We draw the curtain on the horrors of the scenes that followed.
10 She said the horrors of the day are etched into her memory.
11 He reckons the public exaggerate the horrors of working in the sewers.
12 Any misfortune will be smaller in reality than the horrors of uncertainty.
13 People were still traumatised by the horrors of the first world war.
14 These were great people, to have survived the horrors of the Famine.
15 Amidst the horrors of that dream I think the worst lay here.
16 You will hear much of the horrors of the great French Revolution.
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