Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
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He fears central banks' synthetic concoction will intoxicate briefly but prove poisonous.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 8, 2013
The tropics will intoxicate you with the sweetness of frangipani flowers and lay you down with the sting of a viper, with hardly room to breathe in between.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
Peace, thou insatiable conqueror, or amorous ambition will intoxicate you.
From Prince Eugene and His Times by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
But when an object of pursuit enthrals him it will intoxicate him, will not leave him at peace till he joins his very soul with it in union indissoluble.
From Authors of Greece by T. W. Lumb
Power.—Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads.
From Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age by Louis Klopsch
