INTOXICATE • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Intoxicate

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/ɪntˈɑksəkˌeɪt/ Listen

verb

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

1.

To poison; to drug.

2.

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

3.

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."

adjective

Intoxicate adj.

1.

Intoxicated.

2.

Overexcited, as with joy or grief. "Alas, good mother, be not intoxicate for me; I am well enough."

See images of 'Intoxicate'

Etymology of 'Intoxicate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar

"Intoxicate" Quotes from Famous Books

... ice to his fire, is less pain to a man than the woman who is fire to his ice. There is hope for him in the one, but only a dreary despair in the other. The ardours that intoxicate him in the first summer of his passion serve but to dull and chill ...

— Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida - Selected from the Works of Ouida • Ouida

... does me good, too, to hear its effect. Now, never remind him of past errors, never allude to them: make his home cheerful, make it the pleasantest place he can find any where, and he won't want to seek amusement elsewhere, or excitement either; for these seditious meetings intoxicate by their excitement. Oh! I am very glad I have touched him; that I have prevented these seditious ...

— The Attache - or, Sam Slick in England, Complete • Thomas Chandler Haliburton

... immortal upon earth, he died drunk on the floor of a tavern. The like happens to many of us. We waste our best years in distilling the sweetest flowers of life into love-potions, which after all do not immortalize, butonly intoxicate us. By Heaven! we are all ...

— Hyperion • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

... into his Hand, he tasted the tempting Liquor, and that the Devil assisting he was charm'd with the delicious Fragrance, and tasted again and again, pressing it out into a Bowl or Dish, that he might take a larger Quantity; till at length the heady Froth ascended and seizing his Brain, he became intoxicate and drunk, not in the least imagining there was any such Strength in the Juice of that ...

— The History of the Devil - As Well Ancient as Modern: In Two Parts • Daniel Defoe

... popular American plant-names are included some which come from this source, for example: "frog-plant (Sedum Telephium)," from the children's custom of "blowing up a leaf so as to make the epidermis puff up like a frog"; "drunkards (Gaulteria procumbens)," because "believed by children to intoxicate"; "bread-and-butter (Smilax rotundifolia)," because "the young leaves are eaten by children"; "velvets (Viola pedata)," a corruption of the "velvet violets" of their elders; "splinter-weed (Antennaria plantaginifolia)," from "the ...

— The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought • Alexander F. Chamberlain

Copyright © 2025 Dictionary One.com