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intoxicated

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in⋅tox⋅i⋅cat⋅ed

  [in-tok-si-key-tid]
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–adjective
1. affected by a substance that intoxicates; drunk; inebriated.
2. mentally or emotionally exhilarated.
Origin:
1550–60; intoxicate + -ed 2

Related forms:
in⋅tox⋅i⋅cat⋅ed⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
2. rapt, enthralled.

in⋅tox⋅i⋅cate

  [v. in-tok-si-keyt; adj. in-tok-suh-kit, -keyt] verb, -cat⋅ed, -cat⋅ing, adjective
–verb (used with object)
1. to affect temporarily with diminished physical and mental control by means of alcoholic liquor, a drug, or another substance, esp. to excite or stupefy with liquor.
2. to make enthusiastic; elate strongly, as by intoxicants; exhilarate: The prospect of success intoxicated him.
3. Pathology. to poison.
–verb (used without object)
4. to cause or produce intoxication: having the power to intoxicate.
–adjective
5. Archaic. intoxicated.
Origin:
1375–1425; late ME < ML intoxicātus, ptp. of intoxicāre to poison. See in- 2 , toxic, -ate 1

Related forms:
in⋅tox⋅i⋅ca⋅ble  [in-tok-si-kuh-buhl] , adjective
in⋅tox⋅i⋅ca⋅tor, noun
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in·tox·i·cate   (ĭn-tŏk'sĭ-kāt')   
v.   in·tox·i·cat·ed, in·tox·i·cat·ing, in·tox·i·cates

v.   tr.

  1. To stupefy or excite by the action of a chemical substance such as alcohol.

  2. To stimulate or excite: "a man whom life intoxicates, who has no need of wine" (Anaïs Nin).

  3. To poison.

v.   intr.
To cause stupefaction, stimulation, or excitement by or as if by use of a chemical substance: "The notion of Holy War is showing that it has not yet lost all its power to intoxicate and to inflame" (Conor Cruise O'Brien).

[Middle English, to poison, from Medieval Latin intoxicāre, intoxicāt- : Latin in-, in; see in-2 + Late Latin toxicāre, to smear with poison (from Latin toxicum, poison; see toxic).]
in·tox'i·cat'ing·ly adv., in·tox'i·ca'tive adj., in·tox'i·ca'tor n.
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Word Origin & History

intoxicate 
1412, "full of poison" (pp. adj.), from M.L. intoxicatus, pp. of intoxicare "to poison," from L. in- "in" + toxicare "to poison," from toxicum "poison" (see toxic). The verb meaning "to poison" is first attested 1530; meaning "make drunk" first recorded 1576 (implied in intoxicated). Intoxication is c.1408, from M.L. intoxicationem, from intocixare. Intoxicant "liquor" is from 1863.
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Legal Dictionary

Main Entry: in·tox·i·cate
Pronunciation: in-'täk-s&-"kAt
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Forms: -cat·ed; -cat·ing
: to excite or stupefy by alcohol or a drug esp. to the point where physical and mental control is markedly diminished —see also DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: in·tox·i·cate
Pronunciation: -s&-"kAt
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Forms: -cat·ed;-cat·ing
1 : POISON
2 : to excite or stupefy by alcohol or a drugespecially to the point where physical and mental control is markedly diminished

Main Entry: in·tox·i·cat·ed
Pronunciation: -s&-"kAt-&d
Function: adjective
: affected by an intoxicant and especially byalcohol
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Medical Dictionary

intoxicate in·tox·i·cate (ĭn-tŏk'sĭ-kāt')
v. in·tox·i·cat·ed, in·tox·i·cat·ing, in·tox·i·cates
To stupefy or excite, as by the action of a chemical substance such as alcohol.

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