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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.
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.
(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.
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?
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.
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.