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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To make drunk; intoxicate.
  2. v. To exhilarate or stupefy as if with alcohol.
  3. adj. Intoxicated.
  4. n. An intoxicated person.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To make drunk; intoxicate.
  2. Figuratively, to exhilarate extravagantly; intoxicate mentally or emotionally.
  3. Drunk; intoxicated, literally or figuratively.
  4. n. A habitual drunkard.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A person who is intoxicated, especially one who is habitually drunk.
  2. v. To cause to be drunk.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To make drunk; to intoxicate.
  2. v. Fig.: To disorder the senses of; to exhilarate or elate as if by spirituous drink; to deprive of sense and judgment; also, to stupefy.
  3. v. obsolete To become drunk.
  4. adj. Intoxicated; drunk; habitually given to drink; stupefied.
  5. n. One who is drunk or intoxicated; esp., an habitual drunkard.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. fill with sublime emotion
  2. n. a chronic drinker
  3. v. become drunk or drink excessively
  4. v. make drunk (with alcoholic drinks)

Etymologies

  1. From Latin inebriare, from ebrius, drunk (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin inēbriāre, inēbriāt- : in-, intensive pref.; + ēbriāre, to intoxicate (from ēbrius, drunk). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Like the sparkle of the red wine to the inebriate are the seductive influences of the ballroom.”

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  • “Bones evade her as he did us at such moments, or would he save our reputation, and consent, for the moment, to accept her as a new kind of inebriate?”

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  • “But Roger felt far otherwise; and this sudden qualm of conscience once quelled (I will say there seemed much of palliation in the matter), a kind of inebriate feeling of delight filled his mind, and Steady Acton plodded on to the meadow yonder, half a mile a-head, in a species of delirious complacency.”

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  • “Until my recent trip to Anchorage, Alaska, I had never heard the term "Chronic Public Inebriate," yet in Alaska the word "inebriate" is spoken everywhere.”

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  • “Yet in Alaska the word "inebriate" is spoken everywhere.”

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  • “He was greeted with round on round of affectionate cheers, which brought a suspicious moisture to his eyes, albeit many of the voices were inarticulate and inebriate.”

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  • “The kids are all resourceful and responsible and pitch in financially when needed, while dad is an incontinent, inveterate, indecorous inebriate.”

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  • “Had she been some rowdy inebriate they might have turned the plane around or emergency-landed.”

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  • “Ready availability being the most precious of Prohibition virtues, gin was lifted above the historical pedigree that led Willa Cather to call it “the consolation of sailors and inebriate scrub-women.””

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  • “In silence, she sipped her wine and seduced the big yellow moon with her naked body until her sadness was beginning to inebriate itself away.”

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synonyms (6)

Words with the same meaning

  1. intoxicate
  1. intoxicated
  1. drunk
  1. stupefied
  1. drunkard
  1. excite

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  1. drink
  1. booze

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