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Inebriated   /ɪnˈɛbriˌeɪtəd/   Listen
verb
Inebriate  v. t.  (past & past part. inebriated; pres. part. inebriating)  
1.
To make drunk; to intoxicate. "The cups That cheer but not inebriate."
2.
Fig.: To disorder the senses of; to exhilarate or elate as if by spirituous drink; to deprive of sense and judgment; also, to stupefy. "The inebriating effect of popular applause."



Inebriate  v. i.  To become drunk. (Obs.)



adjective
inebriated  adj.  Under the influence of alcohol; intoxicated; drunk.
Synonyms: besotted, bibulous, blind, blind drunk, drunk, drunken, inebriate, sottish.






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"Inebriated" Quotes from Famous Books



... that your affections are to be won, and I proceed accordingly, by making myself charming, in the first place. And now, will you be cheered, but not inebriated, here under the trees, in company with dainty cheese-cakes compounded by these hands, and jelly of Helen Heath's moulding, and automatic trifles that caught an ordaining glimpse of Mrs. Laudersdale's eye and rushed ...
— Atlantic Monthly Volume 6, No. 37, November, 1860 • Various

... But from this again, it becomes manifest, that when it energizes according to its nature, it is superior to Fate, and beyond the reach of its attractive power; but that, when falling into sense and things irrational and corporalized, it follows downward natures and lives, with them as with inebriated neighbors, then together with them it becomes subject to the dominion of Fate. For again, it is necessary that there should be an order of beings of such a kind, as to subsist according to essence above ...
— Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato • Thomas Taylor

... the report had died away, the gun was sponged out, and another inebriated monster departed on its mission. But the Sapper was already some way up the Haymarket. It was not his first view ...
— No Man's Land • H. C. McNeile

... ranks, a tacit conspiracy against the police. The conductor hated them. They rode free on his car, and sometimes kept an eye on him in the rush hours. They had a way, too, of letting him settle his own disputes with inebriated gentlemen who refused ...
— Dangerous Days • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... the zinc washing glasses, occasionally glancing at the men in the corner, smiling upon the inebriated camelots, and now and then casting a suspicious eye upon the quiet old gentleman behind ...
— Mlle. Fouchette - A Novel of French Life • Charles Theodore Murray


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