Meaning:
Intoxicated, inebriated, or otherwise stupefied by an ingested mind-altering substance, commonly speaking of alcohol : drunk.
Examples:
- Suppose he was under the influence at the time.
- And that man was under the influence of the moon.
- Our society was formed under the influence of Jacobinist states.
- Being under the influence isn't a very good defense.
- I believe she's under the influence of a posthypnotic suggestion.
- Well, anything he says under the influence is inadmissible.
- She is always under the influence of her parents.
- That you've been under the influence of other people?
- Or maybe she said she was under the influence.
- That's not fair, I was under the influence of evil.