Intoxicate vs Drunk - What's the difference?
intoxicate | drunk |
To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol.
(obsolete) Intoxicated.
(obsolete) Overexcited, as with joy or grief.
* Chapman
In a state of intoxication caused by the consumption of excessive alcohol, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.
(usually followed by with or on) Elated or emboldened.
* Macaulay
Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
* Bible, Deuteronomy xxxii. 42
A habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.
* 1971 , William S. Burroughs, The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead , page 10
A drinking-bout; a period of drunkenness.
* 1858 , "A Scarcity of Jurors—Cangemi's Third Trial," New York Times , 8 Jun., p. 4:
A drunken state.
* 2006 , Patrick McCabe, Winterwood , Bloomsbury 2007, p. 10:
As verbs the difference between intoxicate and drunk
is that intoxicate is to stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol while drunk is .As adjectives the difference between intoxicate and drunk
is that intoxicate is (obsolete) intoxicated while drunk is in a state of intoxication caused by the consumption of excessive alcohol, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.As a noun drunk is
a habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.intoxicate
English
Verb
(intoxicat)Synonyms
* (to stupefy) inebriateAdjective
(en adjective)- Alas, good mother, be not intoxicate for me; / I am well enough.
Anagrams
*drunk
English
Adjective
(er)- Drunk with power he immediately ordered a management reshuffle.
- drunk with recent prosperity
- I will make mine arrows drunk with blood.
Synonyms
* (intoxicated from alcohol) blitzed, drunken, ebrious, hammered, pissed, tipsy, wasted, smashed; see alsoDerived terms
(terms derived from drunk) * drunkard * drunk as a skunk * drunk driver * drunk driving * drunken * drunkenness * punch drunk * drunk tankNoun
(en noun)- Another drunk is sleeping in dangerous proximity to a brush fire.
- Gen. G. had been on a long drunk from July last until Christmas.
- Here – help yourself to another drop there, Redmond! By the time we've got a good drunk on us there'll be more crack in this valley than the night I pissed on the electric fence!