emborrachar

/emboraˈt͡ʃaɾ/ · B1 · verb

to intoxicate, inebriate

🍷🍰 em- + borracho (drunk): to make someone borracho, or to soak a cake

Borracho may come from borracha, a leather wine skin. Emborrachar means filling someone with wine, the way you fill a wine skin. Spanish also uses it for soaking a sponge cake in liquor, as in bizcocho borracho.

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