Inebriate vs Fracas - What's the difference?
inebriate | fracas |
A person who is intoxicated, especially one who is habitually drunk.
* 1889 , , Driven From Home , ch. 18:
To cause to be drunk; to intoxicate.
(figurative) To disorder the senses of; to exhilarate, elate or stupefy as if by spirituous drink.
* Macaulay
To become drunk.
intoxicated; drunk
* Udall
A noisy disorderly quarrel, fight, brawl, disturbance or scrap.
* 1989 , , Faber 1999, paperback edition, p. 16,
* 1964 , , Vintage Books 2002, paperback edition, p. 37,
As nouns the difference between inebriate and fracas
is that inebriate is a person who is intoxicated, especially one who is habitually drunk while fracas is failure.As a verb inebriate
is to cause to be drunk; to intoxicate.As an adjective inebriate
is intoxicated; drunk.inebriate
English
Noun
(en noun)- As he walked along, the inebriate , whose gait was at first unsteady, recovered his equilibrium and required less help.
Synonyms
* drunkardVerb
(inebriat)- The inebriating effect of popular applause.
- (Francis Bacon)
Synonyms
* intoxicateDerived terms
* inebriacy * inebriant * inebriation * inebriative * inebriety * inebriism * inebriousAdjective
(en adjective)- Thus spake Peter, as a man inebriate and made drunken with the sweetness of this vision, not knowing what he said.
fracas
English
Noun
(en-noun)- And I recall also some years ago, Mr Rayne, who travelled to America as valet to Sir Reginals Mauvis, remarking that a taxi driver in New York regularly addressed his fare in a manner which if repeated in London would end in some sort of fracas , if not in the fellow being frogmarched to the nearest police station.
- The Oregon-Northern California region had lost much of its population during the fracas of 1980; it had been heavily hit by Red Chinese guided missiles, and of course the clouds of fallout had blanketed it in the subsequent decade.