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US
/ˌɪnˈtɑksɪˌkeɪtɪŋ/
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[ UK /ɪntˈɒksɪkˌeɪtɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /ɪntˈɒksɪkˌeɪtɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic
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causing intoxication
an intoxicating drink
How To Use intoxicating In A Sentence
- The crowd were so well behaved, without an intoxicating drink passing their lips.
- In fact since I've been a father that kind of thing has become so unfamiliar to me that a trip to the salon is a positively intoxicating experience.
- We also witness huge elk grazing, and for a brief intoxicating moment, a massive moose plodding across a stream.
- It is intoxicating, a potentially cold and academic work warmed by the power and skill of the actors, notably Valk.
- The music and musicians at Zakopane's second annual On The Heights chamber music festival were intoxicating, the weather was so free of clouds that you could see the great mountain crag that towers 2000 meters above the city, reachable only by ski lift, cable car and climbers. Laurence Vittes: The Musical Beauty of Zakopane
- Page 10 to the intoxicating cup for stimulus to artificial excitement, and drowned all seasonable delight in mire, and a poison that not the dumb animals will swallow. God Seen Above All National Calamities
- The best part was undoubtedly the sirloin steak with fresh grated horseradish and parsley butter; pink, juicy, hedonistically tender, with an intoxicating scent and flavour.
- The plywood subfloor was covered with wood shavings and powdery dust, the scent intoxicating and familiar. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving and Recovery
- Thinking more about this, it’s worth observing that our current low-tax environment has hardly created a free market in intoxicating beverages. Matthew Yglesias » Booze Taxes and Booze Regulations
- It is an offence to sell intoxicating liquor to anyone under the age of 18.