About The Word Inebriate

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Inebriate

Inebriate Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Inebriate?
[n] a chronic drinker
[v] become drunk; drink excessively [v] make drunk (with alcoholic drinks) [v] fill with sublime emotion; tickle pink (exhilarate is obsolete in this usage); "The children were thrilled at the prospect of going to the movies"; "He was inebriated by his phenomenal success" Synonyms | Synonyms for Inebriate: beatify | drunk | drunkard | exalt | exhilarate | hit it up | intoxicate | rummy | soak | sot | souse | thrill Related Terms | Find terms related to Inebriate: addle | addled | alcoholic | alcoholic addict | bacchanal | bacchanalian | beery | befuddle | bemuse | bemused | besot | besotted | bibber | big drunk | blind drunk | boozer | carouser | chronic alcoholic | chronic drunk | crapulent | crapulous | devotee of Bacchus | dipsomaniac | dizzy | drenched | drinker | drunk | drunkard | drunken | far-gone | flustered | fou | full | gay | giddy | glorious | guzzler | happy | hard drinker | heavy drinker | imbiber | in liquor | inebriated | inebrious | intoxicate | intoxicated | jolly | lovepot | lush | maudlin | mellow | merry | muddled | nappy | oenophilist | pathological drinker | pot companion | problem drinker | reeling | reveler | serious drinker | shikker | soak | soaker | social drinker | sodden | sot | sotted | swigger | swiller | thirsty soul | tiddly | tippler | tipsy | toper | tosspot | under the influence | wassailer | winebibber See Also | affect | alcoholic | befuddle | booze | boozer | dipsomaniac | drink | drinker | elate | fuddle | imbiber | intoxicate | juicer | lift up | lush | pick up | soaker | souse | toper | uplift Inebriate In Webster's Dictionary \In*e"bri*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Inebriated}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Inebriating}.] [L. inebriatus, p. p. of
inebriare; pref. in- in + ebriare to make drunk, fr. ebrius
drunk. See {Ebriety}.]
1. To make drunk; to intoxicate.
The cups That cheer but not inebriate. --Cowper.
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.
--Macaulay.
\In*e"bri*ate\, v. i. To become drunk. [Obs.] --Bacon. \In*e"bri*ate\, a. [L. inebriatus, p. p.] Intoxicated; drunk; habitually given to drink; stupefied. Thus spake Peter, as a man inebriate and made drunken with the sweetness of this vision, not knowing what he said. --Udall. \In*e"bri*ate\, n. One who is drunk or intoxicated; esp., an habitual drunkard; as, an asylum fro inebriates. Some inebriates have their paroxysms of inebriety. --E. Darwin. |
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