inebriating Definition

inebriate
verb inebriated, inebriating

1. To make someone drunk; to intoxicate.
2. To exhilarate someone greatly.

Thesaurus: exhilarate, stimulate, intoxicate, animate, excite, fire, carry away; Antonym: dampen, sober up.

adj

1. Drunk, especially habitually drunk.

Thesaurus: drunk, intoxicated, under the influence, tipsy, slang: plastered, smashed, sloshed, high, bombed; Antonym: sober.
Form: inebriated (now usually)

noun

1. formal
Someone who is drunk, especially on a regular basis.

Derivative: inebriation
noun

A drunken state
Thesaurus: drunkenness, intoxication, insobriety, intemperance, tipsiness; Antonym: sobriety.

Etymology: 16c: from Latin inebriare, from ebrius drunk.