intoxicate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin intoxicātus, past participle of intoxicō, from Latin toxicō < toxicus, from Ancient Greek τοξικόν (toxikón).

Pronunciation

Verb

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɒksɪkeɪt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɑksɪkeɪt/

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Adjective

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɒksɪkət/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɑksɪkət/

Verb

intoxicate (third-person singular simple present intoxicates, present participle intoxicating, simple past and past participle intoxicated)

1. To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol.
2. To excite to enthusiasm or madness.

Synonyms

• (to stupefy): to drunken, inebriate

Related terms

• intoxication
• intoxicant
• toxic
• toxicant

Translations

To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol

• Arabic: أَسْكَرَ (ʔaskara)
• Bulgarian: опиянявам (bg) (opijanjavam), упоявам (bg) (upojavam)
• Catalan: intoxicar (ca), emborratxar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 使醉 (shǐ zuì), 醉人 (zuì rén)

• Dutch: vergiftigen (nl)
• Finnish: päihdyttää (fi), juovuttaa (fi) (of alcohol), huumata (fi) (of drugs)
• French: intoxiquer (fr)
• German: berauschen (de), vergiften (de)
• Greek: μεθάω (el) (metháo), μεθώ (el) (methó)
• Ido: ebriigar (io)
• Ingrian: humalluttaa
• Italian: inebriare (it), ubriacare (it)
• Japanese: 酔わせる (よわせる, yowaseru)
• Korean: 취하게 하다 (chwihage hada)
• Latin: inebrio, inebriare
• Maori: whakahaurangi, whakawairangi
• Polish: otępić pf, odurzyć (pl) pf
• Portuguese: intoxicar (pt)
• Romanian: intoxica (ro)
• Russian: опьяня́ть (ru) impf (opʹjanjátʹ), пьяни́ть (ru) impf (pʹjanítʹ), опьяни́ть (ru) pf (opʹjanítʹ), (to poison) отравля́ть (ru) impf (otravljátʹ), отрави́ть (ru) pf (otravítʹ)
• Spanish: intoxicar (es), emborrachar (es)
• Turkish: sarhoş etmek (tr)
• Welsh: meddwi (cy)

to excite to enthusiasm or madness

• Catalan: emborratxar (ca)
• German: berauschen (de)
• Irish: splanc

Adjective

intoxicate (comparative more intoxicate, superlative most intoxicate)

1. (obsolete) Intoxicated.
2. (obsolete) Overexcited, as with joy or grief.
   • 1605 August (first performance), Geo[rge] Chapman, Ben Ionson, Ioh[n] Marston, Eastward Hoe. […], London: […] [George Eld] for William Aspley, published September 1605, →OCLC, (please specify the page):

     Alas, good mother, be not intoxicate for me; / I am well enough.

Anagrams

• excitation

Spanish

Verb

intoxicate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of intoxicar combined with te