alcoholize

[ al-kuh-haw-lahyz, -ho- ]

verb (used with object)

, al·co·hol·ized, al·co·hol·iz·ing.

1. to convert into an alcohol.
2. to treat or saturate with an alcohol.
3. to place under the influence of alcoholic beverages; make drunk; besot.

alcoholize

/ ˈælkəhɒˌlaɪz /

verb

1. tr to turn into alcoholic drink, as by fermenting or mixing with alcohol

Derived Forms

• ˌalcoˌholiˈzation, noun

Other Words From

• alco·holi·zation noun
• over·alco·hol·ize verb (used with object) overalcoholized overalcoholizing
• un·alco·hol·ized adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of alcoholize¹

First recorded in 1680–90; alcohol + -ize

Example Sentences

Disorders similar to some of those seen in the children of alcoholics do actually result in alcoholized animals of one kind or another.

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Certain country villages, the inhabitants of which have become alcoholized and degraded, may present a much more unhealthy sexual life than certain sober and well-governed towns.

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He felt the first pangs of the disease of the liver that had long been lurking in his heated, alcoholized blood, under his brick-red cheek bones.

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In one set the animals were afterwards alcoholized and then injected with a considerable quantity of virulent rabic cord.

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The alcoholized brute could not stand up, became sleepy and stupid, and, when set on his legs, trembled in an inert mass: the other dog experienced at once frightful attacks of epilepsy.

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