intoxicate
verb
[ ɪnˈtɒksɪkeɪt ]
• (of alcoholic drink or a drug) cause (someone) to lose control of their faculties or behaviour.
• "we don't allow people into sessions if they are intoxicated by alcohol or drugs"
Similar:
inebriate,
make drunk,
make intoxicated,
make inebriated,
befuddle,
fuddle,
stupefy,
go to someone's head,
make someone's head spin,
make legless,
make woozy,
drunk,
inebriated,
drunken,
tipsy,
the worse for drink,
under the influence,
blind drunk,
dead drunk,
rolling drunk,
roaring drunk,
as drunk as a lord,
as drunk as a skunk,
sottish,
gin-soaked,
tight,
merry,
the worse for wear,
pie-eyed,
three sheets to the wind,
plastered,
smashed,
hammered,
sloshed,
soused,
sozzled,
well oiled,
paralytic,
wrecked,
wasted,
blotto,
stewed,
pickled,
tanked up,
soaked,
blasted,
ratted,
off one's face,
out of one's head,
out of one's skull,
legless,
bevvied,
Brahms and Liszt,
half cut,
out of it,
bladdered,
trolleyed,
mullered,
slaughtered,
lashed,
well away,
squiffy,
tiddly,
out of one's box,
fou,
loaded,
trashed,
out of one's gourd,
blitzed,
ripped,
jacked,
turnt,
in one's cups,
lit up,
tired and emotional,
sotted,
foxed,
screwed,
crapulent,
crapulous,
bibulous,
ebriate,
pissed,
rat-arsed,
arseholed,
Opposite:
sober someone up,
sober,
• poison (someone).
Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘poison’): from medieval Latin intoxicare, from in- ‘into’ + toxicare ‘to poison’, from Latin toxicum (see toxic).
