intoxicate
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Drawing breath for speech seems to intoxicate him.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 27, 2023
In other words, it seems to intoxicate them in a way that makes them vulnerable.
From Salon • Aug. 18, 2022
These aren’t pleasant feelings, but any strong and pure distillation, even of fear, can intoxicate us.
From Washington Post • Aug. 28, 2020
Like a Seder, the show seems designed to exhaust or intoxicate its audience into absorbing Mac’s radical rereading of history, while also keeping everyone awake long enough to melt a crowd into a community.
From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2019
In Parsifal, his agenda was spiritual rather than physical, and the technique he relied on to intoxicate the listener is called chromaticism.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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