Intoxicating
[ɪn'tɒksɪ,keɪtɪŋ] or [ɪn'tɑksɪketɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Intoxicate
(a.) Producing intoxication; fitted to intoxicate; as, intoxicating liquors.
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Examples
- Let me then look on thy dear eyes, and, reading love in them, drink intoxicating pleasure. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He experimented with nitrous oxide (laughing gas) for ten months until he had thoroughly learned its intoxicating effects. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The mere flow of animal spirits was Paradise, and at night's close I only desired a renewal of the intoxicating delusion. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Another and another, with broken exclamations, and extravagant phrases, endeavoured to express the intoxicating effect of this wonder of nature. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The fermentation which occurs in bread making is similar to that which is responsible for the transformation of plant juices into intoxicating drinks. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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