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Intoxicating

adjective

Causing. Synonym: intoxicant.

Extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic. Synonym: heady.

Intoxicate

verb

(past & past part. intoxicated; pres. part. intoxicating)

Fill with high spirits; fill with optimism. Synonyms: elate, lift up, pick up, uplift. Antonym: depress.

Make drunk (with alcoholic drinks). Synonyms: inebriate, soak.

Have an intoxicating effect on, of a drug.

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"Intoxicating" Quotes from Famous Books

... brief—too brief—to Lucetta whom an intoxicating Weltlust had fairly mastered; but they had brought her a great triumph nevertheless. The shake of the Royal hand still lingered in her fingers; and the chit-chat she had overheard, that her husband might possibly receive the ...

— The Mayor of Casterbridge • Thomas Hardy

... to blame. The best pictures in Rome are those in the churches, and these are sadly dimmed and obscured by the smoke of the incense. A fire-place in a Roman house is a sort of phenomenon; and yet the climate of Rome, unless at certain times, is not that balmy, intoxicating element which we imagine it to be. During my stay there, I had to encounter alternate deluges of rain, with lightning, and cutting blasts of the Tramontana. The comfort of an Italian house, especially in winter, depends more on its exposure ...

— Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber - Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge • James Aitken Wylie

... highest degree fascinating. She had a confused feeling as if there had been something indecorous in her behaviour or appearance, when Mr. Falkland had appeared to her relief; and this combined with her other emotions to render the whole critical and intoxicating. ...

— Caleb Williams - Things As They Are • William Godwin

... was a mixed one. Before him stood a box car, the door of which, by some means, had been left slightly open. Black Eagle went up to it and pushed the door farther open. An odour came forth—a damp, rancid, familiar, musty, intoxicating, beloved odour stirring strongly at old memories of happy days and travels. Black Eagle sniffed at the witching smell as the returned wanderer smells of the rose that twines his boyhood's cottage home. Nostalgia seized him. He put his ...

— Roads of Destiny • O. Henry

... like dancing along the road at first. The sense of freedom was intoxicating. The scent of wild honeysuckle and cluster roses came from the hedgerows. I ate my buns as I walked along; I had made three and a half miles by the milestones in the first hour, and enjoyed every ...

— Fifty-Two Stories For Girls • Various

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