inebriate

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Noun

inebriate (plural inebriates)

1. A person who is intoxicated, especially one who is habitually drunk.
   • 1889, Horatio Alger, Driven From Home, ch. 18:

     As he walked along, the inebriate, whose gait was at first unsteady, recovered his equilibrium and required less help.

Synonyms

• drunkard; See also Thesaurus:drunkard

Verb

inebriate (inebriates, present participle inebriating; past and past participle inebriated)

1. (transitive) To cause to be drunk; to intoxicate.
2. (transitive, figurative) To disorder the senses of; to exhilarate, elate or stupefy as if by spirituous drink.
   • 1841, Thomas Macaulay, Comic Dramatists of the Restoration (printed in Edinburgh Review, January 1841)

     the inebriating effect of popular applause

3. (intransitive) To become drunk.

Synonyms

• intoxicate

Translations

• French: saouler, soûler, souler, enivrer
• German: betrunken machen, Trunkenheit verursachen, berauschen
• Portuguese: embriagar
• Russian: опьянять
• Spanish: embriagar

Translations

• French: enivrer
• German: berauschen

Translations

• French: se saouler, se soûler, se souler, s'enivrer
• German: betrunken werden
• Portuguese: embriagar-se
• Russian: напиваться

Adjective

inebriate

1. intoxicated; drunk

   • Thus spake Peter, as a man inebriate and made drunken with the sweetness of this vision, not knowing what he said.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:drunk

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