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intoxicate (verb):
1a: to excite or stupefy by alcohol or a drug especially to the point where physical and mental control is markedly diminished
b: to excite or elate to the point of enthusiasm or frenzy
2: poison
Source : Merriam -Webster
Etymology :From scents to songs, many harmless things have the power to intoxicate. At least, that is, by today’s standards. The origins of intoxicate are less inviting. You might have guessed that intoxicate is related to toxic; both words trace back to the Latin noun toxicum, meaning “poison,” and the earliest function of intoxicate was as an adjective describing something (such as the tip of an arrow) steeped in or smeared with poison. Toxicum turns up in the etymologies of a number of other English words including intoxicant (“something that intoxicates”) and detoxify (“to remove a poison from”), and also in a number of names for various poisons themselves.
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