Crossword clues for intoxicating
intoxicating
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intoxicating \In*tox"i*ca`ting\, a. Producing intoxication; fitted to intoxicate; as, intoxicating liquors.
Intoxicate \In*tox"i*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Intoxicated; p. pr. & vb. n. Intoxicating.]
To poison; to drug.
--South.-
To make drunk; to inebriate; to excite or to stupefy by strong drink or by a narcotic substance.
With new wine inoxicated both.
--Milton. -
To excite to a transport of enthusiasm, frenzy, or madness; to elate unduly or excessively.
Intoxicated with the sound of those very bells.
--G. Eliot.They are not intoxicated by military success.
--Jowett (Thuc.).
Wiktionary
1 (context of a substance English) able to intoxicate; an intoxicant. 2 Very exciting and stimulating, especially as if by alcohol or some stimulant. v
(present participle of intoxicate English)
WordNet
adj. able to intoxicate [syn: intoxicant]
extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic [syn: heady]
Usage examples of "intoxicating".
Peregrine, is what Brummell would describe as the hot, intoxicating liquor so much drunk by the lower orders.
The scent was an intoxicating olio of candies rare and common, old and cutting edge.
The sight of his giant cockhead was intoxicating, and the arousing sight of the veins pulsing along his massive shaft made Hannah whimper as lust raced through her veins.
Indeed, they were the fairest of all, possessing a beauty that was intoxicating, almost paralyzing.
Against her cheek she could feel the hard warmth of his shoulder, smell the clean, damp, freshly showered male smell of him, and her body was reacting to it as though she had inhaled the headiest and most intoxicating of drugs.
The rich, intoxicating scent of jasmine was thick in the air as Sinclair plopped down on the bank and leaned against the rough bark of a live oak tree.
Those brilliant, terrifying weeks on Kursk, they had been the most intoxicating days of her life.
The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.
His scent reached her, muskier, more intoxicating than the hothouse that surrounded them.
What was necessary was that he transmute something that was nonintoxicating into something that was intoxicating.
She handed Seria one of the flavorful, intoxicating beverages-something Seria desperately needed.
Intoxicating vapors supposedly rose from the aperture, causing the woman to enter a frenzied trance.
In the wild intoxicating pleasures of that new strange dream, she had been wofully unconscious of the truth.
Now, would you know for yourself, like the communicant who came to me in my sleep, how you are ever to get past all those arbours, and settles, and seats, and couches, with all their sweet sorceries and intoxicating enchantments--would you in earnest know that?
Gatta wine is like champagne, it causes merriment without intoxicating, but it cannot be kept for more than one year.