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Intoxicating   /ɪntˈɑksɪkˌeɪtɪŋ/   Listen
Intoxicating

adjective
1.
Causing.  Synonym: intoxicant.
2.
Extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic.  Synonym: heady.


Intoxicate

verb
(past & past part. intoxicated; pres. part. intoxicating)
1.
Fill with high spirits; fill with optimism.  Synonyms: elate, lift up, pick up, uplift.
2.
Make drunk (with alcoholic drinks).  Synonyms: inebriate, soak.
3.
Have an intoxicating effect on, of a drug.





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"Intoxicating" Quotes from Famous Books



... Argus-eyes that watched on the wrong tack; but by the end of a fortnight there was not a member of the large family party who was not in this little domestic secret. When Monsieur Longueville called for the third time, Emilie believed it was chiefly for her sake. This discovery gave her such intoxicating pleasure that she was startled as she reflected on it. There was something in it very painful to her pride. Accustomed as she was to be the centre of her world, she was obliged to recognize a force that attracted her outside herself; she tried to resist, but she could not chase from her heart ...
— The Ball at Sceaux • Honore de Balzac
... came up she had her hand on her father's arm. She stood and leaned on him, looking down at the stag. Pity mingled with a wild intoxicating sense of achievement confused her. A rich color flushed her cheek, but the curve of ...
— In the Quarter • Robert W. Chambers
... she added, singling Halleck out for her remark, and making it as if it were brilliant. "I like being out of doors, don't you know. But there's one thing I don't like: we weren't able to get a drop of champagne at that ridiculous hotel. They told us they were not allowed to keep 'intoxicating liquors.' Now I call that jolly stupid, you know. I don't know whatever we shall do if you haven't ...
— A Modern Instance • William Dean Howells
... identity in Greek and Roman mythology is inseparably connected with the over-indulgence of intoxicating liquors.' ...
— Masques & Phases • Robert Ross
... had spoken his inaugural on March 4, 1865, Mr. Lincoln came back to the White House with less than five weeks of life before him; yet for those scant weeks most men would have gladly exchanged their full lifetimes. To the nation they came fraught with all the intoxicating triumph of victory; but upon the President they laid the vast responsibility of rightly shaping and using success; and it was far less easy to end the war wisely than it had been to conduct it vigorously. Two populations, ...
— Abraham Lincoln, Vol. II • John T. Morse


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