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Definition of Intoxicate
1. Verb. Fill with high spirits; fill with optimism. "The performance is likely to Intoxicate Sue"; "Music can uplift your spirits"
Generic synonyms: Excite, Shake, Shake Up, Stimulate, Stir
Specialized synonyms: Beatify, Puff, Beatify, Exalt, Exhilarate, Inebriate, Thrill, Tickle Pink
Causes: Joy, Rejoice
Antonyms: Depress
Derivative terms: Elation, Elation, Intoxication
2. Verb. Make drunk (with alcoholic drinks).
Generic synonyms: Affect
Specialized synonyms: Befuddle, Fuddle
Derivative terms: Inebriant, Inebriate, Inebriation, Inebriation, Intoxicant, Intoxication
3. Verb. Have an intoxicating effect on, of a drug.
Definition of Intoxicate
1. a. Intoxicated.
2. v. t. To poison; to drug.
Definition of Intoxicate
1. Verb. To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Intoxicate
1. [v -CATED, -CATING, -CATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Intoxicate
Literary usage of Intoxicate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth a
sponge,— As children gathering pebbles on the shore. ..."
2. Buddhist Legends by Buddhaghoṣa (1921)
"... companions intoxicate themselves [xi. 1 = 146], Five hundred clansmen entrust
their wives to ..."
3. The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon by Henry Fielding (1902)
"... and its aptness to intoxicate the mind, as that of those petty tyrants, who
become such in a moment, from very well-disposed and social members of that ..."
4. James Woodhouse: A Pioneer in Chemistry, 1770-1809 by Edgar Fahs Smith (1918)
"... and mixed with dough, will intoxicate and swell the bellies of small fishes."
The chemistry of plants was a constant source of interest to Woodhouse. ..."
5. The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton, Arthur Richard Shilleto (1896)
"Why is all this, but with the whore in the Proverbs, [ch. vii.] to intoxicate
some or other ? ... intoxicate ..."
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