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English
Pronunciation
Adverb
under the influence
- (idiomatic) Intoxicated, inebriated, or otherwise stupefied by an ingested mind-altering substance, typically alcohol; drunk.
He was arrested for driving under the influence.
Derived terms
Translations
intoxicated
- Arabic: تَحْتَ اَلتَّأْثِير (taḥta t-taʔṯīr)
- Catalan: sota els efectes de l'alcohol, sota la influència de l'alcohol
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: onder invloed van alcohol
- Finnish: päihtyneenä
- French: sous l’influence (de l'alcool/ le drogue), sous l’effet (de l'alcool/ le drogue)
- Galician: baixo os efectos do alcohol, baixo a influenza do alcohol
- Georgian: ნასვამი (nasvami), ალკოჰოლის ზემოქმედების ქვეშ (alḳoholis zemokmedebis kveš)
- German: unter Einfluss von Alkohol, unter dem Einfluss von Alkohol
- Greek: υπό την επήρεια του αλκοόλ (ypó tin epíreia tou alkoól), υπό την επήρεια (ypó tin epíreia)
- Hungarian: alkoholos / kábítószeres / gyógyszeres befolyásoltság alatt / állapotában (of alcohol, of drug, of medicine, respectively)
- Italian: in stato di ebbrezza
- Polish: na podwójnym gazie (pl), pod wpływem (pl)
- Portuguese: sob o efeito do álcool, sob a influência do álcool
- Russian: (all colloquial) под га́зом (ru) (pod gázom) , под му́хой (ru) (pod múxoj) , подшофе́ (ru) (podšofɛ́)
- Slovene: pod vplivom
- Spanish: bajo los efectos del alcohol, bajo la influencia del alcohol
- Swedish: påverkad (sv)
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