intoxicate

Borrowed from Medieval Latin intoxicātus, past participle of intoxicō, from Latin toxicō < toxicus, from Ancient Greek τοξικόν (toxikón).

Verb

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɒksɪkeɪt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɑksɪkeɪt/

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Adjective

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɒksɪkət/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɑksɪkət/

intoxicate (third-person singular simple present intoxicates, present participle intoxicating, simple past and past participle intoxicated)

1. To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol.
2. To excite to enthusiasm or madness.

• (to stupefy): to drunken, inebriate

• intoxication
• intoxicant
• toxic
• toxicant

intoxicate (comparative more intoxicate, superlative most intoxicate)

1. (obsolete) Intoxicated.
2. (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.

• excitation

intoxicate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of intoxicar combined with te