Captivate vs Intoxicate - What's the difference?
captivate | intoxicate |
To attract and hold interest and attention of; charm.
* Washington Irving
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, title= (obsolete) To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue.
* Shakespeare
* Glanvill
To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol.
(obsolete) Intoxicated.
(obsolete) Overexcited, as with joy or grief.
* Chapman
In obsolete terms the difference between captivate and intoxicate
is that captivate is to take prisoner; to capture; to subdue while intoxicate is overexcited, as with joy or grief.As verbs the difference between captivate and intoxicate
is that captivate is to attract and hold interest and attention of; charm while intoxicate is to stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol.As an adjective intoxicate is
intoxicated.captivate
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(captivat)- small landscapes of captivating loveliness
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}
- Their woes whom fortune captivates .
- 'Tis a greater credit to know the ways of captivating Nature, and making her subserve our purposes, than to have learned all the intrigues of policy.
Anagrams
* ----intoxicate
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(intoxicat)Synonyms
* (to stupefy) inebriateAdjective
(en adjective)- Alas, good mother, be not intoxicate for me; / I am well enough.