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How to pronounce inebriate in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms intoxicate, soak
Type of affect
Has types fuddle, befuddle
Derivation inebriation, inebriant
Type Words
Synonyms drunk, drunkard, rummy, sot, wino
Type of juicer, toper, drinker, imbiber
Has types soaker, souse, alky, boozer, dipsomaniac, lush, alcoholic
Type Words
Synonyms hit it up, soak, souse
Type of drink, hit the bottle, booze, fuddle
Derivation inebriation
Type Words
Synonyms beatify, exalt, exhilarate, thrill, tickle pink
Type of uplift, elate, intoxicate, lift up, pick up


He was inebriated by his phenomenal success.

Examples of inebriate

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Yorkin is steamed at critics who torpedoed his movie for its portrait of an insouciant inebriate.
From the time.com
And stoned people are every bit as tedious as any other inebriate, no matter their choice of toxin.
From the guardian.co.uk
She was an earthly personification of Emily Dickinson's inebriate of air and debauchee of dew, stoned on life and art.
From the time.com
United Architects entered a widely seen proposal in the competition, an ensemble of five slightly inebriate towers.
From the time.com
A new chronic inebriate court, which Dufty avidly supported, was deemed unconstitutional by the state appeals court.
From the sfgate.com
When friends Doug, Stu and Alan get together, their inebriate night and crazy antics to recover from their hangover keeps the laughs coming.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Mark Hadfield makes a glorious drunk and Geoffrey Freshwater is delightfully pompous as the inebriate butler who sees himself as future royalty.
From the thisisbristol.co.uk
But most experts would agree that the answer is not to leave your credit card behind the bar, persuade the pub landlord to stay open till dawn and leave the inebriate to get on with it.
From the economist.com
More examples
  • Drunkard: a chronic drinker
  • Exhilarate: fill with sublime emotion; "The children were thrilled at the prospect of going to the movies"; "He was inebriated by his phenomenal success"
  • Intoxicate: make drunk (with alcoholic drinks)
  • Souse: become drunk or drink excessively
  • (inebriated) intoxicated: stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol); "a noisy crowd of intoxicated sailors"; "helplessly inebriated"
  • (inebriation) alcoholism: habitual intoxication; prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms
  • (inebriation) drunkenness: a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol
  • (Inebriation) Alcohol intoxication (also known as drunkenness or being drunk or inebriated) is a physiological state occurring when an organism has a high level of ethanol in its bloodstream, or when ethanol otherwise causes the physiological effect known as drunkenness. ...
  • A person who is intoxicated, especially one who is habitually drunk; To cause to be drunk