Intoxicate vs Inspire - What's the difference?
intoxicate | inspire |
To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol.
(obsolete) Intoxicated.
(obsolete) Overexcited, as with joy or grief.
* Chapman
To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural influence; to disclose preternaturally; to produce in, as by inspiration.
* Bible, Wisdom xv. 11
* Shakespeare
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To infuse into; to affect, as with a superior or supernatural influence; to fill with what animates, enlivens or exalts; to communicate inspiration to.
* Dryden
To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale.
* Harvey
To infuse by breathing, or as if by breathing.
(archaic) To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.
* Alexander Pope
To spread rumour indirectly.
As verbs the difference between intoxicate and inspire
is that intoxicate is to stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol while inspire is .As an adjective intoxicate
is (obsolete) intoxicated.intoxicate
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Verb
(intoxicat)Synonyms
* (to stupefy) inebriateAdjective
(en adjective)- Alas, good mother, be not intoxicate for me; / I am well enough.
Anagrams
*inspire
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Verb
(inspir)- He knew not his Maker, and him that inspired into him an active soul.
- Dawning day new comfort hath inspired .
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- Elders should inspire children with sentiments of virtue.
- Erato, thy poet's mind inspire , / And fill his soul with thy celestial fire.
- forced to inspire and expire the air with difficulty
- Descend, ye Nine, descend and sing, / The breathing instruments inspire .