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单词 inebriate
释义

inebriate

formal or humorous
verb /ɪˈniːbrɪeɪt / [with object] (often as adjective inebriated)
Make (someone) drunk; intoxicate: I got mildly inebriated...
  • The old man was not inebriated or hurt by a passing vehicle.
  • The mud underfoot is fast becoming a river and various members of the crew are skidding and staggering across the car park, like inebriated Bambis.
  • Two foreign tours later, my garden had become a cider-pond, surrounded by staggering inebriated wasps.

Synonyms

drunk, intoxicated, inebriate, 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
informal 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
British informal legless, bevvied, Brahms and Liszt, half cut, out of it, lashed, bladdered, trolleyed, mullered, slaughtered, well away, squiffy, tiddly, out of one's box
Scottish informal fou
North American informal loaded, trashed, out of one's gourd, blitzed, ripped
US informal jacked
British vulgar slang pissed, rat-arsed, arseholed
informal, dated in one's cups, lit up
euphemistic tired and emotional
archaic sotted, foxed, screwed
rare crapulent, crapulous, bibulous, ebriate
noun /ɪˈniːbrɪət /
A drunkard: he was marked down as an inebriate...
  • Philostratus in turn described Andros as a land of Cockaigne for inebriates.
  • The Magistrates, believing that imprisonment would not reform the woman, decided to send her to an inebriates' home for two years.
  • It was more like a soccer match attended by a club of misanthropic inebriates.
adjective /ɪˈniːbrɪət /
Drunk; intoxicated: he had been known to get hopelessly inebriate inebriate times by the Bay...
  • To that end, if anyone wants an inebriate Santa staying on their floor sometime in December, do let me know.
  • An inebriate Glaswegian was ahead of me in the queue.
  • We hooked up with the wedding party towards the inebriate end of the evening - my word, did we ever.

Derivatives

inebriety

/ɪniːˈbrʌɪəti/ noun ...
  • It is tolerable only in advanced states of inebriety.
  • Although it was by now only 2.30 in the afternoon, I took refuge in ‘The Parkville’ where the atmosphere of inebriety resembled closing-time.
  • The American Association for the Cure of Inebriates promoted the concept of inebriety as a hereditary disease exacerbated by chronic debauchery.

Origin

Late Middle English (as an adjective): from Latin inebriatus, past participle of inebriare 'intoxicate' (based on ebrius 'drunk').

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