inebriated

Sometimes inebriate

[in-ee-bree-ey-tid]

adjective

1. drunk or intoxicated, or exhilarated or stupefied in a way that suggests intoxication.

   An inebriated couple were arrested when they took their granddaughter for a joyride, pulling her in a toy car behind their van.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of inebriate.

Other Word Forms

• uninebriated adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of inebriated¹

inebriate ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

It generates nearly $100 billion in free cash flow each year and, unlike its megacap tech peers, isn’t spending like an inebriated sailor on artificial intelligence.

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Specktor was forced to get his mom, inebriated and sometimes unconscious, to her room safely.

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While some believed that King had been drinking, no one told The Times that King appeared seriously inebriated.

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In the hours after the shooting, seized by guilt and self-loathing, an inebriated Ferguson wished aloud for the death penalty, demanded to be punched in the face and predicted that he would burn in hell.

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Investigators said she pushed him across the border into Mexico in a wheelchair due to his inebriated state.

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