Dope vs Intoxicate - What's the difference?
dope | intoxicate |
(uncountable) Any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
(uncountable) An absorbent material used to hold a liquid.
(uncountable, aeronautics) Any varnish used to coat a part, such as an airplane wing or a hot-air balloon in order to waterproof, strengthen,
(uncountable, slang) Any illicit or narcotic drug that produces euphoria or satisfies an addiction; particularly heroin.
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(uncountable, slang) Information.
* What's the latest dope on the stock market?
(countable, slang) A stupid person.
(slang) To affect with drugs.
To treat with dope (lubricant, etc.).
(electronics) To add a dopant such as arsenic to (a pure semiconductor such as silicon).
(slang) To use drugs.
(slang) Great, amazing or extraordinary.
To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol.
(obsolete) Intoxicated.
(obsolete) Overexcited, as with joy or grief.
* Chapman
As verbs the difference between dope and intoxicate
is that dope is to affect with drugs while intoxicate is to stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol.As adjectives the difference between dope and intoxicate
is that dope is great, amazing or extraordinary while intoxicate is intoxicated.As a noun dope
is any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.dope
English
Noun
- Here's a cure for all your troubles, here's an end to all distress. It's the old dope peddler, with his powdered happiness.''
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* dope fiend * dope sheet * dope slap/dope-slapVerb
Adjective
(er)- That party was dope !
Anagrams
* * * * ----intoxicate
English
Verb
(intoxicat)Synonyms
* (to stupefy) inebriateAdjective
(en adjective)- Alas, good mother, be not intoxicate for me; / I am well enough.