different between hangover vs dehydration

English

Alternative forms

• hang-over

Etymology

American English; hang +? over. First sense was first attested in 1904. Second sense was first attested in 1894.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?hæ?o?v?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?hæ???v?/

Noun

hangover (plural hangovers)

1. Negative effects, such as headache or nausea, caused by previous drunkenness due to (excessive) consumption of alcohol.

   Synonym: veisalgia

   Antonym: afterglow

2. Similar negative effects caused by previous excessive consumption of something else, such as a drug, coffee, sugar, etc.
   • 2007, Suzanne Barnett, Jennifer Barnett Lesman, Amy Barnett Buchanan, Bev West, 3 Fat Chicks on a Diet, St. Martin's Press (?ISBN)

     Don't go overboard and find yourself with a sugar hangover that lasts for days and makes your diet days that much harder.

   • 2007, Elizabeth Wurtzel, More, Now, Again, Simon and Schuster (?ISBN), page 4:

     So today I walk into Dr. Singer's office with a heroin hangover, a headache like hell, vomiting, shaking, jonesing. I cannot bear to admit to her that it's come to this. I've been doing so well. But I missed therapy the whole time I was locked up […]

   • 2011, Laurie Weeks, Zipper Mouth, The Feminist Press at CUNY (?ISBN):

     On the other hand, I was already drunk, and wasn't a heroin hangover preferable to the alcohol kind any day of the week?

   • 2015, Alexandra Jamieson, Women, Food, and Desire, Simon and Schuster (?ISBN), page 7:

     We're left with our unmet needs and a sugar high that will quickly turn into a sugar hangover. So the craving rises again, calling out to us “Feed me!” and again we take the easy route and stuff it back down with food.

   • 2018, Pat Fitzpatrick, No Sex, No Sleep, Mercier Press Ltd (?ISBN)

     You know nothing about despair until you have experienced a coffee hangover. This is where you lose the run of yourself and have two double espressos in a row. Ten minutes later you have a weird feeling you are going to puke out through your toes.

3. (figuratively) An unpleasant relic left from prior events.
4. (historical) A sleeping arrangement, usually in homeless shelters, over a rope.

Derived terms

• hangxiety

Translations

See also

• hung over

Anagrams

• overhang

English

Etymology

de- +? hydration

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /di?ha??d?e???n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /diha??d?e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

dehydration (countable and uncountable, plural dehydrations)

1. The act or process of removing water from something.
2. The condition in which water in the body drops below normal levels, usually caused by illness, sweating or by not drinking enough.

Synonyms

• hypohydration

Translations