1. Stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)
   "a noisy crowd of intoxicated sailors";
   - drunk, inebriated, ripped [informal], gone, inebriate, skunked [informal]
    
2. Elated or emboldened as if under the influence of alcohol
   "felt intoxicated by her success";
   - drunk

1. Make drunk (with alcoholic drinks)
   "The strong punch quickly intoxicated the party guests";
   - soak, inebriate
    
2. Have an intoxicating effect on, of a drug
   "The new medication intoxicated the patient, causing dizziness"
    
3. Fill with high spirits; fill with optimism
   "Music can intoxicate your spirits";
   - elate, lift up, uplift, pick up

See also: bacchanal, bacchanalian, bacchic, beery, besotted [archaic], bevvied [Brit, informal], bibulous, bladdered [Brit, informal], blind drunk [informal], blitzed [informal], blootered [UK, dialect], blotto [informal], bombed [informal], boozy [informal], carousing, cockeyed [informal], crocked [N. Amer, informal], doped, drugged, drunk, drunken, excited, fried [N. Amer, informal], fuddled [informal], geeked [informal], half-cut [Brit, informal], half-seas-over [Brit, informal], hammered [informal], high [informal], hopped-up, juiced [N. Amer, informal], legless [Brit, informal], liquored up [N. Amer], lit up [slang], loaded [N. Amer, informal], mellow [informal], merry [informal], mullered [Brit, informal], narcotised [Brit], narcotized, off one's face [Brit, informal], orgiastic, out of it [Brit, informal], paralytic [Brit, informal], pickled [informal], pie-eyed [informal], pissed [Brit, informal], pixilated [informal], pixillated, plastered [informal], screwed [informal], sloshed [informal], smashed [informal], soaked [informal], sottish, soused [informal], sozzled [informal], squiffed [informal], squiffy [informal], steaming [informal], stewed [informal], stiff [informal], stinko [informal], stoned [informal], stonkered [Austral, NZ, informal], swacked [N. Amer, informal], tanked up [informal], three sheets to the wind [informal], tiddly [Brit, informal], tight [informal], tipsy, trashed [informal], trolleyed [Brit, informal], trollied [Brit, informal], wasted [informal], wet [informal], wrecked [Brit, informal]

Type of: affect, excite, poison, shake, shake up, stir

Encyclopedia: Intoxicated