inebriated

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in·e·bri·at·ed

(ĭn-ē′brē-ā′tĭd)

adj.

Intoxicated with alcohol; drunk: The inebriated partygoers were very loud.

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Adj.

inebriated - stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol); "a noisy crowd of intoxicated sailors"; "helplessly inebriated"

drunk, intoxicated

inebriated

adjective drunk, wasted (slang), tight (informal), smashed (slang), canned (slang), high (informal), flying (slang), bombed (slang), stoned (slang), hammered (slang), steaming (slang), wrecked (slang), out of it (slang), plastered (slang), blitzed (slang), pissed (Brit., Austral., & N.Z. slang), lit up (slang), merry (Brit. informal), bladdered (slang), under the influence (informal), intoxicated, tipsy, befuddled, legless (informal), under the weather (informal), paralytic (informal), sozzled (informal), steamboats (Scot. slang), off your face (slang), half-cut (informal), blind drunk, high as a kite (informal), zonked (slang), blotto (slang), the worse for drink, inebriate, out to it (Austral. & N.Z. slang), drunk as a skunk, bacchic, in your cups, rat-arsed (taboo slang), Brahms and Liszt (slang), half seas over (informal), bevvied (dialect), three sheets in the wind (informal), babalas (S. African), fou or fu' (Scot.), pie-eyed (slang) He was obviously inebriated by the time dessert was served.

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inebriated

adjective

Stupefied, excited, or muddled with alcoholic liquor:

besotted, crapulent, crapulous, drunk, drunken, inebriate, intoxicated, sodden, tipsy.

Informal: cockeyed, stewed.

Slang: blind, bombed, boozed, boozy, crocked, high, lit (up), loaded, looped, pickled, pixilated, plastered, potted, sloshed, smashed, soused, stinking, stinko, stoned, tight, zonked.

Idioms: drunk as a skunk, half-seas over, high as a kite, in one's cups, three sheets in the wind.

Translations

ebria ebrio

مست

päihtynyt

ubriaco

ebrius

inebriated

[ɪˈniːbrɪeɪtɪd] ADJ (frm) → ebrio

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

inebriated

[ɪnˈiːbrieɪtɪd] adj → ivre

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

inebriated

adj

(form) → betrunken, unter Alkoholeinfluss (form)

(fig) → berauscht, trunken (liter)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

inebriated

[ɪˈniːbrɪˌeɪtɪd] adj (frm) → ubriaco/a

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They wept over it as they sang it, the graceless young scamps who had all broken their mothers' prides, and I sang with them, and wept with them, and luxuriated in the pathos and the tragedy of it, and struggled to make glimmering inebriated generalisations on life and romance.

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'E's always pokin' in the mud by the river an' a-cleanin' them muchly-fish with 'is thumbs." Revere was still absorbed in the Company papers, and the Sergeant, who was sternly fond of Bobby, continued, -" 'E generally goes down there when'e's got 'is skinful, beggin' your pardon, sir, an' they do say that the more lush - inebriated 'e is, the more fish 'e catches.

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Making himself very amiable to the infant phenomenon, was an inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness, who played the calm and virtuous old men; and paying especial court to Mrs Crummles was another elderly gentleman, a shade more respectable, who played the irascible old men--those funny fellows who have nephews in the army and perpetually run about with thick sticks to compel them to marry heiresses.

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I heard high words exchanged between him and his already half- inebriated host as I departed, leading away my bewildered and disconcerted boy.

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The next day there was another visit to Doctors' Commons, and a great to-do with an attesting hostler, who, being inebriated, declined swearing anything but profane oaths, to the great scandal of a proctor and surrogate.

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The poet knows that he speaks adequately then only when he speaks somewhat wildly, or, "with the flower of the mind;" not with the intellect used as an organ, but with the intellect released from all service and suffered to take its direction from its celestial life; or as the ancients were wont to express themselves, not with intellect alone but with the intellect inebriated by nectar.

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