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Inebriated   /ɪnˈɛbriˌeɪtəd/   Listen
Inebriated

adjective
1.
Stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol).  Synonyms: drunk, intoxicated.  "Helplessly inebriated"  Antonym: sober.



Inebriate

verb
(past & past part. inebriated; pres. part. inebriating)
1.
Fill with sublime emotion.  Synonyms: beatify, exalt, exhilarate, thrill, tickle pink.  "He was inebriated by his phenomenal success"
2.
Make drunk (with alcoholic drinks).  Synonyms: intoxicate, soak.
3.
Become drunk or drink excessively.  Synonyms: hit it up, soak, souse.






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"Inebriated" Quotes from Famous Books



... closer, I saw that the eye which I had thought only shut was in fact destroyed. How vividly, now, uprose in imagination the scenes I had witnessed during my last night in his bar-room; the night when a brutal mob, whom he had inebriated with ...
— Ten Nights in a Bar Room • T. S. Arthur

... Why, they was all frightened of him. He was a masterpiece, I tell you. What was that there heppigram as he made?—'Inebriated with the hexuberance of his own verbosity.' There's langwidge for you! And he kep' it up, too, he did. He was the brightest diadem in England's crown, he was. But this Gladstone!—wot's he? Show me any trade as he's ...
— The Chequers - Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in - a Loafer's Diary • James Runciman

... inebriated, my dear. Only this once, and if affects you much, I shall refuse a third glass another time," ...
— Forbidden Fruit • Anonymous

... Johnstown and had not seen them since. He was on the way now to see if anything was left of them. One moment he was in maudlin tears and the next he was cracking some miserable joke about the disaster. He went about the car shaking dice with other inebriated passengers, and in the course of half an hour had won $6. Over this he exhibited almost the glee of a maniac, and the fate of his people was lost sight of. Then he would presently forget his gains and go sobbing up the aisle looking for listeners to ...
— The Johnstown Horror • James Herbert Walker

... the author, J. T. Mathias, himself a Fellow of Trinity, "is mere genius without a regulated life! To show the deformity of vice to the rising hopes of the country, the policy of ancient Sparta exhibited an inebriated slave." ...
— The Works Of Lord Byron, Letters and Journals, Vol. 1 • Lord Byron, Edited by Rowland E. Prothero


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