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/ɪntˈɑksəkˌeɪtəd/ /ɪntˈɑksɪkˌeɪtɪd/ Listen

verb

Intoxicate v. t. (past & past part. intoxicated; pres. part. intoxicating)

To poison; to drug.

To make drunk; to inebriate; to excite or to stupefy by strong drink or by a narcotic substance. "With new wine inoxicated both."

To excite to a transport of enthusiasm, frenzy, or madness; to elate unduly or excessively. "Intoxicated with the sound of those very bells." "They are not intoxicated by military success."

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Etymology of 'Intoxicated'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Intoxicated" Quotes from Famous Books

... who is helplessly intoxicated may almost immediately restore the faculties and powers of locomotion by taking half a teaspoonful of chloride of ammonium in a goblet of water. A wineglassful of strong vinegar will have the same effect and is frequently resorted ...

— Searchlights on Health - The Science of Eugenics • B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols

... under the convent porch Jussac, Cahusac, and that one of Aramis's adversaries who was only wounded. The other, as already observed, was dead. They then rang the bell, and left the ground; the mousquetaires and D'Artagnan, intoxicated with joy, carrying away four swords out of five, and taking the direction of Monsieur de Treville's hotel. Every mousquetaire whom they met, and informed of what had happened, turned back and accompanied them; so that at last their march was like a triumphal procession. D'Artagnan was beside himself ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine -- Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 • Various

... porter of the Heralds' office, by all those who came home after that time; sometimes, and not unfrequently, two were necessary. He could not resist the temptation of liquor, even when he was to officiate on solemn occasions; for at the burial of the Princess Caroline he was so intoxicated that he could scarcely walk, but reeled about with a crown 'coronet' on a cushion, to the great scandal of his brethren. His method of composing was somewhat singular. He had a number of small parchment bags inscribed with the names of the persons ...

— Old and New London - Volume I • Walter Thornbury

... bed. At last he shut his book, his mind was blank, he walked upstairs intoxicated with depression and anger, and, intoxicated with depression and anger, ...

— The Rainbow • D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

... caused by the fear of exciting the envy and contempt which those merit who are intoxicated with their good fortune; it is a vain display of our strength of mind, and in short the moderation of men at their greatest height is only a desire to appear greater than ...

— Reflections - Or, Sentences and Moral Maxims • Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld

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