intoxicate
Plural: intoxicates
Verb
- fill with high spirits; fill with optimism
- make drunk (with alcoholic drinks)
- have an intoxicating effect on, of a drug
- To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol.
- To excite to enthusiasm or madness.
Adj
- Inebriated, intoxicated.
- Overexcited, as with joy or grief.
- Empoisoned, smeared with poison, rendered poisonous.
- Killed by poison.
- Caused by poison.
Noun
- One who is intoxicated.
Origin / Etymology
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.
Synonyms
elate, inebriate, lift up, pick up, soak, uplift, Adrian Quist, Brahms, Brahms and Liszt, MWI, Mozart and Liszt, Oliver, Oliver Twist, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, animate, animated, ardent, arseholed, avid, awaken, bedrunken, befuddled, beliquored, besotted, besotten, bevvied, bibacious, bibulous, big [⇒ thesaurus] [on], bingoed, binned, bladdered, blasted, blewed, blind, blind drunk, blitzed, blocked, blootered, blottoed, blue, bollocksed, bombed, boozy, bosky, bottled, bubbly, budgy, bungalowed, bungfu, burlin', canned, chemically inconvenienced, clobbered, cocked, cockeyed, corned, crapulous, crocked, cunted, cup-shot, cup-shotten, cut, dead drunk, destroyed, disguised, drunk, drunk as a piper, drunked up, drunken, eager, earnest, ebriated, ebriose, ebullient, electrify, elephant's, elephant's trunk, elevated, energetic, enflame, enkindle, enthrill, enthusiastic, exagitate, excite, excited, exhilarate, exhilarated, exsuscitate, faced, fanatic, fanatical, fap, feeling no pain, fershnickered, fervent, fervid, fever-pitched, feverish, fillip, fire, fire the blood, flooey, floored, flush, flushed, flustered, fluted, fluthered, fou, four sheets in the wind, fresh, fried, frosted, fuckered up, fuckfaced, fuddled, full, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, galvanize, gassed, gattered, gee-eyed, geeked, gesuip, get drunk, gin up, ginned, gished, glorious, groggified, groggy, gung ho, half cut, half lit, half polluted, half seas over, hammered, have drink taken, have the sun in one's eyes, hazed, hearty, high, high as a Georgia pine, high as a kite, high-spirited, highwrought, hog-whimpering, honkers, hooched up, hooted, hoovered, hosed, how came you so, ignite, impaired, impassioned, in liquor, in one's altitudes, in one's cups, in the bag, in the drink, inebriated, inebrious, inflame, insober, insobrietous, inter pocula, intoxicate, jaked, jarred, juiced, juiced up, kaylied, keen, kindle, kisky, lamped, langered, langers, larruped, lash, lashed, lathered, legless, liquored up, liquory, lit, lit up, lively, loaded, looped, loopy, loose, lubed, lubed up, lubricated, lushed, mad, mad with it, maggot, maggoted, mashed, maudlin, medicated, messed up, monged, mortal, mortalled, motivated, muddled, muggy, mullered, munted, muzzy, nappy, newted, nimptopsical, obfuscated, obliviated, off one's box, off one's head, off one's tits, oiled, oiled up, 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, passionate, pickled, pie-eyed, pixilated, plastered, ploughed, plowed, polluted, potshot, potted, pounded, primed, puggled, quicken, quisby, raddled, raring, rat-arsed, ratted, razzled, rip-roaring, ripe, ripped, rolling, rouse, rubbered, sauced, sauced up, scammered, schloshed, schnockered, screwed, scuttered, send, set fire to, set on fire, sewed up, sharpen, shedded, shellacked, shicker, shickered, shitty, skunked, slammed, slarmied, slizzard, sloppy drunk, sloshed, smashed, snockered, snookered, snozzled, snuffy, soaken, sodden, sotted, sottish, souped-up, soused, sozzled, sozzly, spanceled, spannered, spiffed, splashed, spongy, sprung, squiffed, steamboats, stewed, stimulated, stinking, stinko, stir the blood, stoated, stoned, stonkered, stotious, strut, suscitate, swacked, tanked, tanked up, temulent, temulentive, three sheets in the wind, three sheets to the wind, thrill, thrilled, throwed, tight, tight as a tick, tilted, tippled, tipsy, tired and emotional, toasted, top-heavy, top-heavy with drink, toping, torrid, trashed, tuned, twatfaced, twisted, vehement, vibrant, vitalise, vivacious, wake, warm the blood, wastey, wazzed, wazzocked, well-oiled, wellied, wet, whet, whittled, wild, wind up, withered, wobbly, woozy, work up, worked up, worse for liquor, worse for wear, wrecked, wrought-up, yerk, zealous, zestful, zoned, zonked, zooted, zorched, zotzed
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 19
intoxicate: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordintoxicate: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
intoxicate: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary