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intoxicate + sb
及物动词，直接接人作宾语。
The strong wine quickly intoxicated the guests.
烈酒很快就使客人们醉了。
使醉；使喝醉
先理解核心含义，再看它在真实句子里的用法。
使醉；使喝醉
make (someone) drunk or unable to think clearly because of alcohol or drugs
The strong wine quickly intoxicated the guests.
烈酒很快就使客人们醉了。
用酒精等化学物质使人麻醉。
To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol.
使兴奋到狂热或疯狂。
To excite to enthusiasm or madness.
intoxicate
Base
原形
intoxicates
3rd person
第三人称单数
intoxicating
-ing
现在分词
intoxicated
Past
过去式
intoxicated
Past participle
过去分词
Alcohol intoxicates people.
酒精使人陶醉。
The smell of fresh bread in the morning always intoxicates me.
早晨新鲜面包的香味总是让我陶醉。
He had drunk too much wine and was completely intoxicated by the time we left.
他喝了太多酒，我们离开时他已经完全醉了。
The beauty of the sunset intoxicated everyone on the beach.
日落的美景让海滩上的每个人都陶醉了。
及物动词，直接接人作宾语。
The strong wine quickly intoxicated the guests.
烈酒很快就使客人们醉了。
被动语态，表示状态；by/with引出原因。
He was intoxicated by the beauty of the sunset.
他被日落的美丽陶醉了。
用with表示手段或方式。
The singer intoxicated the audience with her voice.
那位歌手用她的声音使观众陶醉。
Not this
He is intoxicate.
Use this
He is intoxicated.
intoxicate 是动词原形，不能作表语；表示“喝醉”应用过去分词 intoxicated 作形容词。
Not this
The wine is very intoxicated.
Use this
The wine is very intoxicating.
intoxicated 形容人喝醉，而酒本身应使用现在分词 intoxicating 表示“令人陶醉的”。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
因酒精而醉
He was intoxicated by alcohol and began talking loudly.
他因酒精而醉，开始大声说话。
致醉饮料；含酒精饮料
The bar offers a range of intoxicating drinks.
这家酒吧供应各种含酒精饮料。
令人陶醉的芳香
The intoxicating aroma of freshly baked bread drew customers in.
新鲜面包令人陶醉的香味吸引了顾客。
因权力而忘乎所以
He was intoxicated with power and refused to listen to any advice.
他因权力而忘乎所以，拒绝听取任何建议。
醉酒驾驶；酒后驾车
She was fined for driving while intoxicated.
她因醉酒驾驶被罚款。
Use intoxicate naturally, then get feedback on meaning, tone, grammar, and phrasing.
Revisit a common error or keep this word in your review list.
拼写里有toxic（有毒），喝酒像中毒一样让人醉——把intoxicate记成“in+toxic”就行。
语域：formal 常见场景：正式或书面描述酒精/药物作用、文学或修辞中形容极度兴奋 intoxicate 多用于正式、书面或文学语境；日常口语中更常说 get drunk 或 be/get excited。具体取“使醉”还是“使兴奋”需根据上下文判断。
None of these is a true rhyme with 'intoxicate', because its stressed syllable is /tɒk/, not the ending /keɪt/. The words indicate, dedicate, communicate, and fabricate share only the spelling ending -icate (/ɪkeɪt/), with the stress earlier. Locate shares the final /keɪt/ sound but not the -icate spelling. Toxic looks similar because it appears inside 'intoxicate', but it is pronounced /ˈtɒksɪk/, not /ˈtɒksɪkeɪt/.
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.