drink oneself to death
Lethal chronic intoxication
To drink oneself to death is to die from the cumulative effects of chronic alcohol abuse, or more rarely, from a single episode of extreme consumption.
The phrase emphasizes deliberate, sustained self-destruction: He drank himself to death after his wife left him.
It suggests alcohol as the primary cause, whether through liver failure, accident, or general physical collapse.
- vodkaClear distilled spirit
- hit the bottleDrink to excess
- alcoholismAddiction to drinking
- liver cirrhosisIrreversible scarring of detoxifying organ
- addictionCompulsive substance reliance
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