inebriate
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[v. in-ee-bree-eyt]
D
–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.
Detest
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