inebriate
verb (used with object)
to make drunk; intoxicate.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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It is inebriating, and the most wonderful of all its accidents is how the population can ever calm and recur to the monotony of ordinary life.
From Endymion by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield