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 Translation for 'inebriate' from English to Spanish
NOUN   an inebriate | inebriates
VERB   to inebriate | inebriated | inebriated
inebriating | inebriates
SYNO drunk | drunkard | inebriate | ...
emborrachar a-algn/algoto inebriate sb./sth.
ebrio {m}inebriate
ebria {f}inebriate [female]
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Usage Examples English
  • A straightforward approach is for some songs: "Bachelor's Dance" finds a bartender singing out loud of his potential mate while eyeing the female patrons of his establishment, while "Amsterdam" places a weary inebriate in a barroom corner while he watches the mix of sailors and sexual predators pass by his table.
  • In Genesis 19:30-38, living in an isolated area after the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Lot's two daughters conspired to inebriate and rape their father due to the lack of available partners to continue his line of descent.
  • It's more like a sausage fest without the beer to inebriate the mood".
  • Dumézil describes wine as a "kingly" drink with the power to inebriate and exhilarate, analogous to the Vedic Soma.
  • During her years of official service with the Church Army, she founded three homes for inebriate women in England, which institutions she personally superintended, until they were rendered unnecessary, owing to the increase in the number of restrictions on the sale of intoxicating liquors imposed by the British Government.

  • The referrals of Inebriates collapsed and in 1922 the last inebriate sentenced under the inebriates act was discharged from Brentry and it became wholly a mental Deficiency colony for men.
  • Satie - himself no stranger to alcohol - playfully crafted the vocal line to emulate the slurred speech of an inebriate.
  • Some of her other contributions include practical programs such as a home for inebriate women, which was opened in 1892.
  • In 1907 her life sentence was reduced to ten years, and after having served exactly six years of her sentence Byron was released from Aylesbury Prison on 17 December 1908 on condition that she stayed in Lady Henry Somerset's home for reforming inebriate females near Reigate.
  • The commission also recommended that inebriates and idiots be housed in asylums separate from the insane which led to the construction of Kew Idiot Ward and various Inebriate Asylums.

  • The work of the MWCTA along with the general Temperance Movement was effective in persuading Parliament regarding the treatment of inebriates with the passing of the 1898 Inebriates Act.
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