Definition of "intoxicate" [in•tox•i•cate]

• To stupefy or excite by the action of a chemical substance such as alcohol. (verb-transitive)
• To stimulate or excite: "a man whom life intoxicates, who has no need of wine” ( Anaïs Nin). (verb-transitive)
• To poison. (verb-transitive)
• To cause stupefaction, stimulation, or excitement by or as if by use of a chemical substance: "The notion of Holy War is showing that it has not yet lost all its power to intoxicate and to inflame” ( Conor Cruise O'Brien). (verb-intransitive)

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• "They know that the mainstream press is in thrall to power and is therefore compromised, thus they're seeking a new path to redress their grievances -- and new antidotes to the poison spread by the powerful to intoxicate the minds and hearts of the powerless."
• "Twenty years later, these theories re-emerged in comics like "Pharaon: The Ice Brain," in which spies uncover a Nazi cabal bunkered inside a Tibetan mountain, where they have built a supercomputer "to intoxicate the world and bewitch the people!""
• "“A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.”"