inebri-

1. A reference to an intoxicant: Christine's friend added some rum to her tea to make a warm inebriant beverage.
2. Etymology: from Latin inebriare; in-, "intensive" + ebriare, "to intoxicate".

A habitual drunkard or an intoxicated person or people: The nightclub where Jack lived was a place, where as an inebriate, he got his usual over supply of beers and didn’t know when to stop drinking them.

1. To make intemperate or unrestrained, to impair the mental and physical abilities of an individual: Jerry knew that the combination of his medicine and wine in the evening would cause him to inebriate; so, he stayed away from such strong drinks.
2. To exhilarate or to stupify with strong drinks: Mary’s parents avoided having any alcoholic beverages served during their daughter’s birthday party because some of the guests might inebriate by taking too many sips of wine and not being in control of themselves anymore.
3. Etymology: from Latin inebriatus; past participle of inebriare, in- + ebriare, "make drunk"; from ebrius, "drunk".

Relating to someone or people who are very tipsy or have consumed an immoderate amount of liquor resulting in the loss of control over their mental and physical functions: An inebriated individual is usually in a stuporous state because he or she has ingested an excessive amount of intoxicating substances and is often characterized by motor incoordination and slurred speech.

Tim and his wife were too inebriated to drive their car home; so, they called a taxi to pick them up.

The three men at the bar became steadily more inebriated during the evening until the owner made them leave so he could close his place.

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A brief or momentary state which is caused by the uncontrolled and excessive intake of liquor: One of the drinks that the visitors enjoyed at the opening ceremony for the new mayor, was a combination of juice and gin, which could lead to a state of inebriation or insobriety if any of them indulged in drinking too much of it.

The plight of being out of control because a person is under the influence of alcohol: Inebriety set in when two friends, who hadn’t seen each other in years, met at the local pub and enjoyed one beer after the next resulting in a predicament of not even knowing where they were!