inebriate
verb (used with object)
to make drunk; intoxicate.
was inebriating
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past progressiveof inebriate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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"To the Father, to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit be glory," all Paradise began, so that the sweet song was inebriating me.
From Divine Comedy, Norton's Translation, Paradise by Charles Eliot Norton
