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intoxicate

adj · noun · verb · 11 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ɪnˈtɒksɪkət/
  • General-American: /ɪnˈtɑksɪkət/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ɪnˈtɒksɪkeɪt/
  • General-American: /ɪnˈtɑksɪkeɪt/
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  • CMU ARPABET: IH2 N T AA1 K S AH0 K EY2 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Inebriated, intoxicated.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: chemically inconvenienced, Adrian Quist, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, arseholed, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, bedrunken, befuddled, beliquored, besotted, besotten, bevvied, bibacious, bibulous, binned, bingoed, bladdered, blasted, blewed, blind, blind drunk, blitzed, blocked, blootered, blottoed, blue, bollocksed, bombed, boozy, bosky, bottled, Brahms, Brahms and Liszt, budgy, bungalowed, bungfu, burlin', canned, clobbered, corned, cocked, cockeyed, crapulous, crocked, cunted, cup-shot, cup-shotten, cut, dead drunk, destroyed, disguised, drunk, drunk as a piper, drunked up, drunken, ebriated, ebriose, elephant's, elephant's trunk, elevated, faced, fap, fershnickered, flooey, floored, flush, flushed, flustered, fluted, fluthered, feeling no pain, fou, four sheets in the wind, fresh, fried, frosted, fuckered up, fuckfaced, fuddled, full, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, gassed, gattered, gee-eyed, gesuip, ginned, gished, glorious, groggified, groggy, half polluted, half cut, half lit, half seas over, hammered, have drink taken, have the sun in one's eyes, hazed, high as a Georgia pine, high as a kite, high, hog-whimpering, honkers, hooched up, hooted, hoovered, hosed, how came you so, impaired, in liquor, in one's altitudes, in one's cups, in the bag, in the drink, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, insober, insobrietous, inter pocula, jaked, jarred, juiced, juiced up, kaylied, kettled, kisky, lamped, langered, langers, larruped, lash, lashed, lathered, legless, liquored up, liquory, lit, loaded, looped, loopy, loose, lubed, lubed up, lubricated, lushed, mabok, mad with it, maggot, maggoted, mashed, maudlin, medicated, messed up, monged, mortal, mortalled, Mozart and Liszt, muddled, muggy, mullered, munted, muzzy, MWI, nappy, newted, nimptopsical, obfuscated, obliviated, off one's box, off one's head, off one's tits, oiled, oiled up, Oliver, Oliver Twist, on the ran tan, ossified, out of it, out of one's box, out of one's face, out of one's head, out of sight, overcome, overrefreshed, overtaken, paralytic, parlatic, pickled, pie-eyed, pixilated, plastered, ploughed, plowed, polluted, potshot, potted, pounded, primed, puggled, quisby, raddled, ratfaced, razzled, ripe, ripped, rolling, rubbered, sauced, sauced up, scammered, schloshed, schnockered, screwed, scuttered, sewed up, shedded, shellacked, shicker, shickered, shitty, skunked, slammed, slarmied, slizzard, sloppy drunk, sloshed, smashed, snockered, snookered, snozzled, snuffy, soaken, sodden, soshed, sotted, sottish, souped-up, soused, sozzled, sozzly, spanceled, spannered, spiffed, splashed, spongy, sprung, squiffed, steamboats, stewed, stinking, stinko, stoated, stoned, stonkered, stotious, strut, swacked, tanked, tanked up, temulent, temulentive, three sheets in the wind, three sheets to the wind, throwed, tight as a tick, tight, tilted, tippled, tipsy, tired and emotional, toasted, top-heavy, top-heavy with drink, toping, trashed, tuned, twatfaced, twisted, wastey, wazzed, wazzocked, well-oiled, wellied, wet, whittled, withered, wobbly, woozy, worse for liquor, worse for wear, wrecked, zoned, zonked, zooted, zorched, zotzed

Antonyms: none provided

2

adj

Meaning 2

Overexcited, as with joy or grief.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: fever-pitched, highwrought, animated, ardent, avid, big [⇒ thesaurus] [on], bubbly, eager, earnest, ebullient, energetic, enthusiastic, excited, exhilarated, fanatic, fanatical, fervent, fervid, feverish, gassed, geeked, gung ho, hearty, high-spirited, impassioned, juiced, keen, lit up, lively, mad, motivated, passionate, raring, rip-roaring, souped-up, stimulated, thrilled, torrid, vehement, vibrant, vivacious, wild, worked up, wrought-up, zealous, zestful

Antonyms: none provided

3

adj

Meaning 3

Empoisoned, smeared with poison, rendered poisonous.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

adj

Meaning 4

Killed by poison.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

adj

Meaning 5

Caused by poison.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

One who is intoxicated.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

verb

Meaning 7

To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: drunken, get drunk, inebriate

Antonyms: none provided

8

verb

Meaning 8

To excite to enthusiasm or madness.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: awaken, exhilarate, animate, electrify, enflame, enkindle, enthrill, exagitate, excite, exsuscitate, fillip, fire, fire the blood, galvanize, gin up, ignite, inflame, intoxicate, kindle, quicken, rouse, send, set fire to, set on fire, sharpen, stir the blood, suscitate, thrill, vitalise, wake, warm the blood, whet, wind up, work up, yerk

Antonyms: none provided

9

verb

Meaning 9

have an intoxicating effect on, of a drug

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: poison

10

verb

Meaning 10

make drunk (with alcoholic drinks)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: soak, inebriate

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: affect

Narrower terms: befuddle, fuddle

11

verb

Meaning 11

fill with high spirits; fill with optimism

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • Music can uplift your spirits

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: elate, lift up, uplift, pick up

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: stimulate, shake, shake up, excite, stir

Narrower terms: beatify, puff, exhilarate, tickle pink, inebriate, thrill, exalt

History

Etymology

First attested in 1425, in Middle English; from Middle English intoxicat(e) (“(of a weapon or drug) smeared, anointed or filled with poison; (of a human being, animal) poisoned, intoxicated”, also used as the past participle of intoxicaten), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more. The noun was derived by substantivization from the adjective, see -ate (noun-forming suffix).

First attested in 1450, in Middle English; from Middle English intoxicaten, from intoxicat(e) (“(of a weapon or drug) smeared, anointed or filled with poison; (of a human being, animal) poisoned, intoxicated”, also used as the past participle of intoxicaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), borrowed from intoxicātus, perfect passive participle of intoxicō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from Late Latin toxicō (“to smear, anoint with poison”), from toxicus (“toxic, poisonous”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix), from Ancient Greek τοξικόν (toxikón). By surface analysis, in- + toxic + -ate.

Across languages

Translations

48 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: أَسْكَرَ (ʔaskara) — To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol
  • Bulgarian: опиянявам (opijanjavam) — To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol
  • Bulgarian: упоявам (upojavam) — To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol
  • Catalan: intoxicar — To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol
  • Catalan: emborratxar — To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol
  • Chinese Mandarin: 使醉 (shǐ zuì) — To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol
  • Chinese Mandarin: 醉人 (zuì rén) — To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol
  • Dutch: vergiftigen — To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol
  • Finnish: päihdyttää — To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol
  • Finnish: juovuttaa — To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol
  • Finnish: huumata — To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol
  • French: intoxiquer — To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol
  • German: berauschen — To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol
  • German: vergiften — To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol
  • Greek: μεθάω (metháo) — To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol
  • Greek: μεθώ (methó) — To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol
  • Hebrew: סִמֵּם (simmém) — To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol
  • Hebrew: שִׁכֵּר (shikkér) — To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol
  • Ido: ebriigar — To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol
  • Ingrian: humalluttaa — To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol
  • Italian: inebriare — To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol
  • Italian: ubriacare — To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol
  • Japanese: 酔わせる (yowaseru) — To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol
  • Korean: 취하게 하다 (chwihage hada) — To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol
  • Latin: inebrio — To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol
  • Latin: inebriare — To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol
  • Māori: whakahaurangi — To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol
  • Māori: whakawairangi — To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol
  • Polish: otępić — To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol
  • Polish: odurzyć — To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol
  • Portuguese: intoxicar — To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol
  • Romanian: intoxica — To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol
  • Russian: опьяня́ть (opʹjanjátʹ) — To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol
  • Russian: пьяни́ть (pʹjanítʹ) — To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol
  • Russian: опьяни́ть (opʹjanítʹ) — To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol
  • Russian: отравля́ть (otravljátʹ) — To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol
  • Russian: отрави́ть (otravítʹ) — To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol
  • Spanish: intoxicar — To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol
  • Spanish: atosigar — To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol
  • Spanish: atoxicar — To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol
  • Spanish: entosigar — To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol
  • Spanish: entosicar (disused) — To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol
  • Spanish: tosigar (disused) — To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol
  • Turkish: sarhoş etmek — To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol
  • Welsh: meddwi — To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol
  • Catalan: emborratxar — to excite to enthusiasm or madness
  • German: berauschen — to excite to enthusiasm or madness
  • Irish: splanc — to excite to enthusiasm or madness