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- Dictionaryintoxicated/ɪnˈtɒksɪkeɪtɪd/
adjective
- 1. drunk or under the influence of drugs: "officials are reporting an increase in the number of intoxicated students requiring medical attention"
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having lost some control of your actions or behaviour under the influence of alcohol or another drug: She was charged with driving while intoxicated. Intoxicated or disruptive spectators will be ejected. feeling excited, happy, and slightly out of control: Intoxicated by success, she wanted to go further.
(of alcohol or another drug) to make someone lose some control of their actions or behaviour: The plant has the power to heal or intoxicate. It took surprisingly little drink to intoxicate him. to make someone excited, happy, and slightly out of control: Their music never fails to intoxicate me.
If you are intoxicated by or with something such as a feeling or an event, you are so excited by it that you find it hard to think clearly and sensibly. [literary] They seem to have become intoxicated by their success. [+ by/with] These leaders can become intoxicated with a sense of their own omnipotence.
The meaning of INTOXICATED is affected by alcohol or drugs especially to the point where physical and mental control is markedly diminished; especially : drunk. How to use intoxicated in a sentence.
the condition of having lost some control of your actions or behaviour under the influence of a drug: The driver showed no signs of intoxication. Severe intoxication can lead to death. a feeling of being happy, excited, and slightly out of control: I felt the intoxication of youth.
1. a. : to excite or stupefy by alcohol or a drug especially to the point where physical and mental control is markedly diminished. b. : to excite or elate to the point of enthusiasm or frenzy. 2. : poison. intoxicate. 2 of 2. adjective. in· tox· i· cate in-ˈtäk-si-kət. archaic. : intoxicated sense 1. Did you know?
to affect temporarily with diminished physical and mental control by means of alcoholic liquor, a drug, or another substance, especially to excite or stupefy with liquor. to make enthusiastic; elate strongly, as by intoxicants; exhilarate: The prospect of success intoxicated him. Pathology. to poison.
Definition of intoxicated adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
intoxicated. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English in‧tox‧i‧cat‧ed /ɪnˈtɒksɪkeɪtɪd $ -ˈtɑːk-/ adjective 1 formal drunk OPP sober The driver was clearly intoxicated. 2 happy, excited, and unable to think clearly, especially as a result of love, success, power etc intoxicated by/with He rapidly became intoxicated with ...
Someone who's intoxicated has had too much to drink. Visit an Irish pub on St. Patrick's Day and you're sure to see at least one intoxicated person. When you describe someone as intoxicated, you usually mean that he's been drinking alcoholic beverages until he feels dizzy and sick.
