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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin intoxicātus, past participle of intoxicō, from Latin toxicō < toxicus, from Ancient Greek τοξικόν (toxikón).
Pronunciation
- Verb
- Adjective
Verb
intoxicate (third-person singular simple present intoxicates, present participle intoxicating, simple past and past participle intoxicated)
- To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol.
- To excite to enthusiasm or madness.
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Translations
To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol
- Arabic: أَسْكَرَ (ʔaskara)
- Bulgarian: опиянявам (bg) (opijanjavam), упоявам (bg) (upojavam)
- Catalan: intoxicar (ca), emborratxar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 使醉 (shǐ zuì), 醉人 (zuì rén)
- Dutch: vergiftigen (nl)
- Finnish: päihdyttää (fi), juovuttaa (fi) (of alcohol), huumata (fi) (of drugs)
- French: intoxiquer (fr)
- German: berauschen (de), vergiften (de)
- Greek: μεθάω (el) (metháo), μεθώ (el) (methó)
- Ido: ebriigar (io)
- Ingrian: humalluttaa
- Italian: inebriare (it), ubriacare (it)
- Japanese: 酔わせる (よわせる, yowaseru)
- Korean: 취하게 하다 (chwihage hada)
- Latin: inebrio, inebriare
- Maori: whakahaurangi, whakawairangi
- Polish: otępić pf, odurzyć (pl) pf
- Portuguese: intoxicar (pt)
- Romanian: intoxica (ro)
- Russian: опьяня́ть (ru) impf (opʹjanjátʹ), пьяни́ть (ru) impf (pʹjanítʹ), опьяни́ть (ru) pf (opʹjanítʹ), (to poison) отравля́ть (ru) impf (otravljátʹ), отрави́ть (ru) pf (otravítʹ)
- Spanish: intoxicar (es), emborrachar (es)
- Turkish: sarhoş etmek (tr)
- Welsh: meddwi (cy)
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to excite to enthusiasm or madness
Adjective
intoxicate (comparative more intoxicate, superlative most intoxicate)
- (obsolete) Intoxicated.
- (obsolete) Overexcited, as with joy or grief.
1605 August (first performance), Geo[rge] Chapman, Ben Ionson, Ioh[n] Marston, Eastward Hoe. , London: [George Eld] for William Aspley, published September 1605, →OCLC, (please specify the page):Alas, good mother, be not intoxicate for me; / I am well enough.
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Verb
intoxicate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of intoxicar combined with te