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Intoxicate

Intoxicated.

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Broader term 6

Affect 76% connected

To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.

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Excite 76% connected

To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a per…

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Poison 76% connected

Any agent which, when introduced into the animal organism, is capable of producing a morbid, noxious, or deadly effect upon it; as, morphine is a dea…

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Shake 76% connected

obs. p. p. of Shake.

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Stimulate 76% connected

To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimul…

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Stir 76% connected

To change the place of in any manner; to move.

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Manner of action 8

Beatify 76% connected

To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.

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Befuddle 76% connected

To becloud and confuse, as with liquor.

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Exalt 76% connected

To raise high; to elevate; to lift up.

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Exhilarate 76% connected

To make merry or jolly; to enliven; to animate; to gladden greatly; to cheer; as, good news exhilarates the mind; wine exhilarates a man.

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Fuddle 76% connected

To make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated.

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Inebriate 76% connected

To make drunk; to intoxicate.

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Puff 76% connected

A sudden and single emission of breath from the mouth; hence, any sudden or short blast of wind; a slight gust; a whiff.

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Thrill 76% connected

A warbling; a trill.

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Drunkenness 74% connected

The state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic liquor; intoxication; inebriety; -- used of the casual state or the habit.

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Drunkenness 74% connected

The state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic liquor; intoxication; inebriety; -- used of the casual state or the habit.

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Inebriation 74% connected

The condition of being inebriated; intoxication; figuratively, deprivation of sense and judgment by anything that exhilarates, as success.

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Inebriation 74% connected

The condition of being inebriated; intoxication; figuratively, deprivation of sense and judgment by anything that exhilarates, as success.

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Intoxicant 74% connected

That which intoxicates; an intoxicating agent; as, alcohol, opium, and laughing gas are intoxicants.

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Intoxicant 74% connected

That which intoxicates; an intoxicating agent; as, alcohol, opium, and laughing gas are intoxicants.

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Rummy 74% connected

Of or pertaining to rum; characteristic of rum; as a rummy flavor.

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Rummy 74% connected

Of or pertaining to rum; characteristic of rum; as a rummy flavor.

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Tipsiness 74% connected

The state of being tipsy.

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Tipsiness 74% connected

The state of being tipsy.

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Joy 72% connected

The passion or emotion excited by the acquisition or expectation of good; pleasurable feelings or emotions caused by success, good fortune, and the l…

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Rejoice 72% connected

To feel joy; to experience gladness in a high degree; to have pleasurable satisfaction; to be delighted.

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Elate 92% connected

Lifted up; raised; elevated.

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Inebriate 92% connected

To make drunk; to intoxicate.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Soak 92% connected

To cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or other liquid; to steep, as for the p…

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Uplift 92% connected

To lift or raise aloft; to raise; to elevate; as, to uplift the arm; to uplift a rock.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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