inebriate

• POS: Adjective, Noun, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: in=e=bri=ate

CIDE DICTIONARY

inebriate, v. t. [L. inebriatus, p. p. of inebriare; pref. in- in + ebriare to make drunk, fr. ebrius drunk. See Ebriety.].

•  To make drunk; to intoxicate.  [1913 Webster]

  "The cups
  That cheer but not inebriate."  [1913 Webster]
•  Fig.: To disorder the senses of; to exhilarate or elate as if by spirituous drink; to deprive of sense and judgment; also, to stupefy.  [1913 Webster]

  "The inebriating effect of popular applause."  [1913 Webster]

inebriate, v. i. 

 To become drunk.  Bacon.  [1913 Webster]

inebriate, a. [L. inebriatus, p. p.].

 Intoxicated; drunk; habitually given to drink; stupefied.  [1913 Webster]
"Thus spake Peter, as a man inebriate and made drunken with the sweetness of this vision, not knowing what he said."  [1913 Webster]

inebriate, n. 

 One who is drunk or intoxicated; esp., an habitual drunkard; as, an asylum for inebriates.  [1913 Webster]
"Some inebriates have their paroxysms of inebriety."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

inebriate, v., adj., & n.
--v.tr.
1 make drunk; intoxicate.
2 excite.
--adj. drunken.
--n. a drunken person, esp. a habitual drunkard.

Derivative

inebriation n. inebriety n.

Etymology

ME f. L inebriatus past part. of inebriare (as IN-(2), ebrius drunk)

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

inebriate

Drunkenness

VB get drunk, be drunk, see double, take a drop too much, take a glass too much, drink, tipple, tope, booze, bouse, guzzle, swill, soak, sot, bum, besot, have a jag on, have a buzz on, lush, bib, swig, carouse, sacrifice at the shrine of Bacchus, take to drinking, drink hard, drink deep, drink like a fish, have one's swill, drain the cup, splice the main brace, take a hair of the dog that bit you, liquor, liquor up, wet one's whistle, take a whet, crack a bottle, pass the bottle, toss off, go to the alehouse, go to the public house, make one drunk, inebriate, fuddle, befuddle, fuzzle, get into one's head.

N drunkenness, intemperance, drinking, inebriety, inebriation, ebriety, ebriosity, insobriety, intoxication, temulency, bibacity, wine bibbing, comtation, potation, deep potations, bacchanals, bacchanalia, libations, bender, oinomania, dipsomania, delirium tremens, alcohol, alcoholism, mania a potu, drink, alcoholic drinks, blue ruin, grog, port wine, punch, punch bowl, cup, rosy wine, flowing bowl, drop, drop too much, dram, beer, aguardiente, apple brandy, applejack, brandy, brandy smash, chain lightning, champagne, cocktail, gin, ginsling, highball, peg, rum, rye, schnapps, sherry, sling, uisquebaugh, usquebaugh, whisky, xeres, drunkard, sot, toper, tippler, bibber, wine-bibber, lush, hard drinker, gin drinker, dram drinker, soaker, sponge, tun, love pot, toss pot, thirsty soul, reveler, carouser, Bacchanal, Bacchanalian, Bacchal, Bacchante, devotee to Bacchus, bum, guzzler, tavern haunter, drunk, tipsy, intoxicated, inebrious, inebriate, inebriated, in one's cups, in a state of intoxication, temulent, temulentive, bombed, smashed, fuddled, mellow, cut, boozy, fou, fresh, merry, elevated, flustered, disguised, groggy, beery, top-heavy, potvaliant, glorious, potulent, squiffy, overcome, overtaken, whittled, screwed, tight, primed, corned, raddled, sewed up, lushy, nappy, muddled, muzzy, obfuscated, maudlin, crapulous, dead drunk, woozy, buzzed, flush, flushed, inter pocula, in liquor, the worse for liquor, having had a drop too much, half seas over, three sheets in the wind, three sheets to the wind, under the table, drunk as a lord, drunk as a skunk, drunk as a piper, drunk as a fiddler, drunk as Chloe, drunk as an owl, drunk as David's sow, drunk as a wheelbarrow, drunken, bibacious, sottish, given to drink, addicted to drink, addicted to the bottle, toping, nunc est bibendum, Bacchus ever fair and young, drink down all unkindness, O that men should put an enemy in their mouths to.