Inebriate

inebriate



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[v. in-ee-bree-eyt]



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–verb (used with object) 

1. to make drunk; intoxicate. 



2. to exhilarate, confuse, or stupefy (使麻木) mentally or emotionally. 



–noun 

3. an intoxicated person.

4. a habitual drunkard. 



–adjective 

5. Also, inebriated. drunk; intoxicated. 





　

Graphic but never gratuitous in its violence, Eastern Promises opens on a rainy December eve with a brutal gangland murder in a London barbershop and unfolds mainly in a demimonde of Russian émigré thugs and [whore]- masters. Anna (Naomi Watts), a midwife in a central London hospital, [delivers] a baby as the mother, a 14-year-old prostitute named Tatiana, dies in childbirth. 



Half-Russian herself, Anna filches the girl's [diary], hoping to discover who she is, and asks her irascibly inebriated uncle (Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski) to translate. "Do you always rob the bodies of the dead?" he asks in a question that will hang over the rest of the movie. 



demimonde

–noun 

1. (esp. during the last half of the 19th century) a class of women who have lost their standing in respectable society because of indiscreet behavior or sexual promiscuity. 





rancid

as through decomposition, esp. of fats or oils

rancid [butter]

obnoxious

noxious

noxious [fumes] 

a noxious plan to spread [dis]sension.

pernicious

nocuous

delectable deleterious



miasma

The film's form and purpose now [emerge] from the [miasma] of the original cut

inimical

Her opinions are inimical [to] our proposal. 

that the Amazon was truly inimical [to] humankind. 

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