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Inebriated

//ɪˈniː.bɹi.eɪ.tɪd// adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Behaving as though affected by alcohol including exhilaration, and a dumbed or stupefied manner.

    "Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated."

Adjective
  1. 1
    stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol) wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of inebriate form-of, participle, past

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Latin inēbriātus, past participle of inēbriō (“intoxicate”) from in- + ēbrius (“drunk, intoxicated”) from Proto-Italic *ēɣʷrjos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ēgʷʰ-ryo-s from root *h₁egʷʰ- (“drink”); whence also ebrious and inebriate.

Etymology 2

From Latin inēbriātus, past participle of inēbriō (“intoxicate”) from in- + ēbrius (“drunk, intoxicated”) from Proto-Italic *ēɣʷrjos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ēgʷʰ-ryo-s from root *h₁egʷʰ- (“drink”); whence also ebrious and inebriate.

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