intoxicate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb fill with high spirits; fill with optimism
    uplift; elate; pick up; lift up.
    • Music can uplift your spirits
  2. verb make drunk (with alcoholic drinks)
    inebriate; soak.
  3. verb have an intoxicating effect on, of a drug

WordNet

In*tox"i*cate adjective
Etymology
LL. intoxicatus, p. p. of intoxicare to drug or poison; pref. in- in + L. toxicum a poison in which arrows were dipped, Gr. , fr. pertaining to a bow. See Toxic.
Definitions
  1. Intoxicated.
  2. Overexcited, as with joy or grief.
    Alas, good mother, be not intoxicate for me; I am well enough. Chapman.
In*tox"i*cate transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Intoxicated ; present participle & verbal noun Intoxicating
Definitions
  1. To poison; to drug. South.
  2. To make drunk; to inebriate; to excite or to stupefy by strong drink or by a narcotic substance.
    With new wine inoxicated both. Milton.
  3. To excite to a transport of enthusiasm, frenzy, or madness; to elate unduly or excessively.
    Intoxicated with the sound of those very bells. G. Eliot.
    They are not intoxicated by military success. Jowett (Thuc. ).

Webster 1913