INTOXICATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does intoxicated mean? 

• INTOXICATED (adjective)
  The adjective INTOXICATED has 2 senses:

1. stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)

2. as if under the influence of alcohol

  Familiarity information: INTOXICATED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTOXICATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)

Synonyms:

drunk; gone; inebriated; intoxicated; ripped

Context example:

helplessly inebriated

Similar:

bacchanal; bacchanalian; bacchic; carousing; orgiastic (used of riotously drunken merrymaking)

beery (smelling of beer)

besotted; blind drunk; blotto; cockeyed; crocked; fuddled; loaded; pie-eyed; pissed; pixilated; plastered; slopped; sloshed; smashed; soaked; soused; sozzled; squiffy; stiff; tight; wet (very drunk)

potty; tiddly; tipsy (slightly intoxicated)

bibulous; boozy; drunken; sottish (given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol)

doped; drugged; narcotised; narcotized (under the influence of narcotics)

half-seas-over (British informal for 'intoxicated')

high; mellow (slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana))

hopped-up; stoned (under the influence of narcotics)

Antonym:

sober (not affected by a chemical substance (especially alcohol))

Sense 2

Meaning:

As if under the influence of alcohol

Synonyms:

drunk; intoxicated

Context example:

drunk with excitement

Similar:

excited (in an aroused state)

 Context examples 

Stx cleaves ribosomal RNA, thereby disrupting protein synthesis and killing the intoxicated epithelial or endothelial cells.

(Pathogenic Escherichia coli Infection Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

People who are sleeping or intoxicated can die from CO poisoning before they have symptoms.

(Carbon Monoxide Poisoning, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

They had their limitations to forget, and when they were drunk, their dim, stupid spirits were even as gods, and each ruled in his heaven of intoxicated desire.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I was intoxicated with joy.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It delighted his ear, and he grew intoxicated with the repetition of it.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)