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inebriated

inebriated \in*e"bri*at`ed\ adj. under the influence of alcohol; intoxicated; drunk.

Syn: besotted, bibulous, blind, blind drunk, drunk, drunken, inebriate, sottish.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
inebriated

"drunken," c.1600, past participle adjective from inebriate.

Wiktionary
inebriated
  1. behave as though affected by alcohol including exhilaration, and a dumbed or stupefied manner. v

  2. (en-past of: inebriate)

WordNet
inebriated

adj. stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol); "a noisy crowd of intoxicated sailors"; "helplessly inebriated" [syn: intoxicated, drunk] [ant: sober]

Usage examples of "inebriated".

Bible in her lap, there to spend the hours in holy meditation till such time as the inebriated trumpeter should awaken to a sense of propriety.

A totally nice person whose parents died years ago in a plane crash when the inebriated Frazier, Senior, tried to land his seaplane on the Grand Corniche in Monte Carlo.

I said to the inebriated moron, closing the back door before he could pour himself into the car.

His fatigued, vaguely inebriated brain took a hazy moment to recall exactly where he was.

And before any protest could materialize from the inebriated Owen, she was on her feet.

Her letter suggests strongly that, one night when her father was inebriated, he had taken a terrible advantage of her innocence indeed, one can place no other construction on it and as a consequence of this she feared that she was with child.

But even inebriated, even as woozy as she was, Jessica could sense what was going to happen.

When he is sober, he talks intellectually, unreeling arguments s Defined as a person who becomes more inebriated than his blood alcohol levels would explain.

Jameson always got the feeling around her that she regarded men as nothing more than inebriated fraternity boys.

Nor did she notice in her inebriated confusion that the bottle she gripped contained white spirit and not vodka.

Progress for the inebriated became a trial of slipped steps and hooked ankles, overseen by jeering, half-naked sailors.

Strickland to inebriated indiscretion would not work today, he tried a different tack.

It entered her head that his inebriated state not only freed him from the normal constraints, but also permitted him to perceive and remember more than he did while sober.