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had been intoxicating

  • past perfect progressive
    of intoxicate.
    intoxicate
    verb (used with object)
    to affect temporarily with diminished physical and mental control by means of alcoholic liquor, a drug, or another substance, especially to excite or stupefy with liquor.

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The vast unpeopled desert had been bad enough, but it had been intoxicating liberty to this.

From The Valiant Runaways by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton