intoxicate

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
intoxicate

▶verb (usu. as adj. intoxicated)

• 1 (of alcoholic drink or a drug) cause (someone) to lose control of their faculties.

  ■ excite or exhilarate.

• 2 archaic poison (someone).

– derivatives
intoxicating adjective,
intoxicatingly adverb,
intoxication noun.

– origin ME: from med. L. intoxicare, from in- ‘into’ + toxicare ‘to poison’, from L. toxicum (see toxic).