Meaning

3 senses
  1. (transitive)To cause to be drunk; to intoxicate.

    betrunken machen, Trunkenheit verursachen, berauschen

    опьянятьopʹjanjatʹ

    become drunk or drink excessively

  2. (figuratively, transitive)To disorder the senses of; to exhilarate, elate or stupefy as if by spirituous drink.

  3. (intransitive)To become drunk.

    betrunken werden, sich betrinken

    напиватьсяnapivatʹsja

    make drunk (with alcoholic drinks)

Examples

10 sentences
  1. Are you inebriated?

  2. Tom is inebriated.

  3. Tom appeared to be inebriated.

  4. Sami was very inebriated.

  5. Sami was getting more inebriated.

Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
to cause to be drunk; to intoxicate:
to become drunk:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
to cause to be drunk; to intoxicate:
to become drunk:

Origin

From Latin inēbriō, inēbriāre, from ēbrius (“drunk”).

From Latin inēbriō, inēbriāre, from ēbrius (“drunk”).

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Forms

inebriates, inebriating, inebriated, inebriated
Base forminebriate · to inebriate
3rd person singularinebriates
Present participleinebriating
Past simpleinebriated
Past participleinebriated

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyinebriate
he, she, itinebriates

Past simpleLesson

all personsinebriated

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave inebriated
he, she, ithas inebriated

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill inebriate

Synonyms

9 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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