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intoxicating — Everyday, meaning 1: So exciting or delightful that it makes you feel dizzy with joy.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Of drink, strong enough to make people drunk.↗ Example: The scent of the flowers was intoxicating.↗ · The dryad felt an intoxicating joy.↗ · The music was intoxicating and made us dance.↗

intoxication — Everyday, meaning 1: Intoxication is being drunk, or affected by alcohol or drugs so that you cannot think or move properly.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Intoxication can also mean being poisoned by a harmful substance.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (literary) Intoxication is a strong, exciting, dizzy feeling, as if you were drunk with joy.↗ Example: Intoxication makes it dangerous to drive a car.↗ · The doctor treated him for alcohol intoxication.↗ · Water intoxication can happen if someone drinks far too much water too fast.↗ · The team felt the intoxication of winning the cup.↗ · Some plants can cause intoxication in pets.↗ · Police tested the driver for intoxication.↗ · Intoxication slows down a person's reactions.↗ · Intoxication is not so much an evil to be dreaded or remembered with shame, as a joy to be fondly anticipated, or classed with the happy memories of the past.↗

intransitive — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: An intransitive verb is one that does not take an object, such as "lie down" or "sleep".↗ Example: The first is clearly the root שָׁכַב shakhav ‘to lie, lie down’, but שכובה looks like a passive participle, shekhuvah, while shakhav is normally an intransitive verb not amenable to being made passive.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

intravenous — Everyday, meaning 1: Intravenous means going into a vein, the tube that carries blood back to the heart.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An intravenous drip or injection gives medicine, food or fluid straight into the blood through a needle in a vein.↗ Example: The nurse gave her intravenous fluids.↗ · He had an intravenous drip in his arm.↗ · Intravenous medicine works quickly.↗ · The patient was fed by intravenous feeding for a few days.↗ · Doctors chose an intravenous antibiotic.↗ · Intravenous means «into a vein».↗ · The bag of intravenous fluid hung beside the bed.↗

intravenously — Everyday, meaning 1: Intravenously means by putting something straight into a vein, usually with a needle or drip.↗ Example: The medicine was given intravenously.↗ · When she could not eat, she was fed intravenously.↗ · Fluids were dripped intravenously into his arm.↗ · Some vaccines are not given intravenously but into a muscle.↗ · The vet gave the dog fluids intravenously.↗ · Drugs given intravenously act quickly.↗

intrepidity — Everyday, meaning 1: Fearless bravery; the quality of not being afraid of danger.↗ Example: The knight showed great intrepidity in the battle.↗ · Atalanta's intrepidity won her fame.↗ · We admired the explorer's intrepidity.↗

intrinsic — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) Belonging to the real nature of something itself, not coming from outside: intrinsic value.↗ Example: Gold has intrinsic value, but paper money has value because people agree it does.↗ · Kindness is intrinsic to her character.↗ · Reading for fun gives intrinsic motivation.↗ · Every person has intrinsic worth.↗ · Risk is intrinsic to mountain climbing.↗ · The coin's intrinsic value is less than its face value.↗ · Even the iron claw hung inactive; as if knowing that it was no intrinsic part of what the attacking force wanted.↗

intrinsically — Everyday, meaning 1: Intrinsically means by its own nature, in itself, not because of anything added from outside.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) Intrinsically good or bad means good or bad deep down, in its very nature.↗ Example: Gold is not intrinsically useful, but people value it.↗ · Playing games is not intrinsically bad.↗ · Every person is intrinsically valuable.↗ · The plan was intrinsically unfair.↗ · Some things are intrinsically interesting, like volcanoes.↗ · A paper banknote has almost no intrinsic value, but we agree it is worth money.↗ · The problem is intrinsically hard.↗

intro — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal) An intro is an introduction, the start of a song, book, talk or video.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) An intro is when you introduce one person to another.↗ Example: I love the guitar intro to that song.↗ · Skip the intro and go to the game.↗ · Can you give me an intro to your friend?↗ · The video's intro was too long.↗ · Write a short intro for your story.↗ · The band played the intro twice.↗

introduce — Everyday, meaning 1: To introduce people is to tell them each other's names when they meet for the first time.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To introduce something new is to bring it in or start using it.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To introduce someone to something is to let them try or learn it for the first time.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To introduce a talk, book or show is to say what it will be about at the start.↗ Example: Let me introduce my friend Ali.↗ · Please introduce yourself to the class.↗ · The school introduced a new lunch menu.↗ · Dad introduced me to chess.↗ · Rabbits were introduced to Australia and spread quickly.↗ · Start your story by introducing the main character.↗ · The Count shook hands with him, and introduced him.↗ · The opinions of Hebrew Kabalistic Rabbis and of two French mystics may be fitly introduced here.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · The twelve sections of this chapter introduce this philo- sophic disquisition upon the Formation and Development of the Universe.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

introduction — Everyday, meaning 1: An introduction is the first part of a book, story, essay or talk, which tells what it will be about.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An introduction is when you tell people each other's names so they meet.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Introduction means bringing something new into use or into a place for the first time.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: An introduction to a subject is a first, simple lesson about it.↗ Example: Write an introduction that tells the reader what your report is about.↗ · Let me make the introductions: this is Ava and this is Leo.↗ · The book has a short introduction by the author.↗ · The introduction of rabbits to Australia caused big problems.↗ · This lesson is an introduction to fractions.↗ · The introduction to the song was very quiet.↗ · After the introductions, we played a game.↗ · A good introduction makes people want to read on.↗ · With an Introduction by Thomas Bodkin↗ · Source: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/SepherYetzirah (/Preface, /Introduction, /SepherYetzirah), fetched via index.php?action=render on 2026-10-17.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · PARTIAL: English Wikisource transcription (proofread from Index:Sepher Yetzirah.djvu) — only Preface to the Second Edition, Introduction, and the text (chapters I-VI).↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · Hence Isaac de Lates; criticism in the introduction to the Zohar : (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

introductory — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Coming at the start of something and explaining what is to follow.↗ Example: The appearance of this root in the SY’s introductory paragraph serves as a reminder that although we embark upon a text rich in vivid, grounded symbolism—even anthropomorphism—we should not hasten to take such symbolic language overly literally.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

intrude — Everyday, meaning 1: To intrude is to go into a place or join a situation where you are not wanted or not invited.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To intrude on something is to disturb it or spoil it: the noise intruded on our peace.↗ Example: I'm sorry to intrude, but your mum is on the phone.↗ · Please don't intrude when someone is praying.↗ · We felt we were intruding on a private family moment.↗ · The traffic noise intruded on our picnic.↗ · Reporters should not intrude on people's grief.↗ · A fox intruded into the hen house.↗ · Then a Stag intruded into his domain and shared his pasture.↗

intruder — Everyday, meaning 1: An intruder is a person who goes into a place where they are not allowed, especially a building, to steal or cause harm.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An intruder can be anyone or anything that comes in where it is not wanted, like an animal in a nest or a person in a private talk.↗ Example: The intruder alarm went off in the middle of the night.↗ · The dog barked at the intruder.↗ · The police caught the intruder climbing out of a window.↗ · The cuckoo chick is an intruder in another bird's nest.↗ · Our school practises a lockdown drill in case of an intruder.↗ · I felt like an intruder at their family party.↗ · Hackers are intruders on computer networks.↗ · Seizing a big stick, he began to beat the intruder and to drive him out of his garden.↗

intrusion — Everyday, meaning 1: An intrusion is when someone comes into a place or situation where they are not wanted or allowed.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Intrusion into someone's private life is not respecting their privacy.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (science) An intrusion is rock that pushed into other rock while melted.↗ Example: Sorry for the intrusion, but dinner is ready.↗ · Reading her diary was an intrusion into her privacy.↗ · The alarm sounds if there is an intrusion.↗ · The reporters' intrusion upset the family.↗ · Granite can form an intrusion in older rock.↗ · The noise was an unwelcome intrusion.↗

intrust — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: An old spelling of "entrust": to give someone something to look after or keep safe.↗ Example: To this angel God intrusted all the secrets of the Law, and of wisdom; and all the mysteries of creation are known to him as they are known to the Creator Himself*"i. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · Thus far. it has been impossible to determine tiic ago and authorship of tlic Sefer Yetzirah. .↗ Tcwish tradition claims divine origin for it: it was intrusted by tlie Lord to Adam and after- wards to Abraham***).↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

intrusted — Early Modern English, meaning 1: Given to someone to look after or to carry out.↗ Example: Read the parable of the intrusted talent!↗ (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) · Bellerophon now presented to him the letter intrusted to him by Proetus.↗ (Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome) · As a proof of his confidence, the king now intrusted Paris with a somewhat delicate mission.↗ (Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome)

intuition — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A sudden feeling of knowing something without working it out step by step.↗ Example: A very notable Hebrew expression of Divinatory intuition was BATh QUL, the Daughter of the Voice.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

inuit — Everyday, meaning 1: The Inuit are Indigenous peoples who live in the Arctic regions of Canada, Greenland, Alaska and nearby.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Inuit (adjective) means of or about these peoples and their cultures and languages.↗ Example: The Inuit have lived in the Arctic for thousands of years.↗ · Inuit hunters used kayaks to travel on the water.↗ · An igloo is a snow shelter built by some Inuit on hunting trips.↗ · Inuktitut is one of the Inuit languages.↗ · We learned about Inuit art and stone carvings.↗ · Nunavut is a territory in Canada where many Inuit live.↗

inundated — Everyday, meaning 1: Getting so many things, like letters, calls or jobs, that it is hard to deal with them all.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Flooded; covered with a large amount of water.↗ Example: The school office was inundated with phone calls after the snow day.↗ · After the heavy rain, the fields were inundated.↗ · The vet was inundated with sick puppies.↗ · Our class was inundated with entries for the poetry prize.↗ · The town was inundated when the river burst its banks.↗ · Santa is inundated with letters every December.↗ · The shop was inundated with customers on the first day of the sale.↗ · Here he found the country inundated with disastrous floods, towns and villages destroyed, and everywhere signs of desolation and ruin.↗

inundation — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) A flood; when water covers land that is usually dry.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A very large amount of things arriving at once: an inundation of letters.↗ Example: The yearly inundation of the Nile made the soil rich.↗ · Coastal towns face inundation as sea levels rise.↗ · The inundation destroyed many farms.↗ · There was an inundation of emails after the announcement.↗ · The levee protected the town from inundation.↗ · Ancient Egyptians had a season called Inundation.↗ · It is probable that these sea-monsters are the poetical figures which represent the demons of hunger and famine, necessarily accompanying a general inundation.↗

invade — Everyday, meaning 1: To invade a country or place is to enter it with an army in order to take control of it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To invade can mean to come into a place in large numbers, often unwelcome: ants invaded the kitchen.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To invade someone's privacy or personal space is to get too close or poke into things that are theirs.↗ Example: The Romans invaded Britain and built roads and towns.↗ · The Vikings invaded from across the North Sea.↗ · Ants invaded our picnic.↗ · Please don't invade my personal space.↗ · Reading my diary is invading my privacy!↗ · Germs invade the body and make us ill.↗ · Cane toads have invaded large parts of Australia.↗ · I have often heard how they invade this land, kill and rob the people, and carry off all they can find.↗ · Now the bands of the Moabites used to invade the land at the coming in of the year.↗ (Prophets 2KI.13.20, JPS 1917)↗ · And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir, whom Thou wouldest not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned aside from them, and destroyed them not; (Writings 2CH.20.10, JPS 1917)↗

invader — Everyday, meaning 1: An invader is a person, army or country that enters another place by force to take it over.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science) An invader is a plant, animal or germ that spreads into a place where it does not belong and causes harm.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: An invader is anyone who comes in where they are not wanted.↗ Example: The Vikings were invaders who sailed from Scandinavia.↗ · The castle walls kept out the invaders.↗ · Cane toads are invaders that harm Australian wildlife.↗ · White blood cells attack invaders such as bacteria.↗ · In the game you shoot down alien invaders.↗ · The cat chased the invader out of its garden.↗ · In 1066 the Norman invaders won the Battle of Hastings.↗ · After this defeat the invaders, foreseeing a long and wearisome campaign, drew up their ships on land, erected tents, huts, &c., and formed an intrenched camp on the coast.↗