caffeinate

verb

caf·​fein·​ate ˈka-fə-ˌnāt 

-fē-ə-

caffeinated; caffeinating

transitive + intransitive

: to get caffeine or to provide caffeine to (someone) by means of a caffeinated beverage (such as coffee)

No sitter this afternoon, so I caffeinate and stumble through the routine …

—Nancy Kruger Cohen

The Lady K, as locals call it, caffeinates customers in the morning …

—Amy Mayer

Inspired by Stephen King's how-to "On Writing," he scrawled a longhand draft of "Tietam" in six weeks, caffeinating himself through the wee hours with two-liter Diet Cokes.

—Gregory Kirschling

Examples of caffeinate in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Many major tech companies engineered environments designed to keep smart people in the building longer—fed, caffeinated and stimulated enough to move at a pace that older, slower companies couldn't match. — Vince Carrabba, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026

Things to do like eating, drinking, shopping, and caffeinating all across town. — Juli McDonald, CBS News, 23 June 2026

In the next room, Brooklyn coffee shop Land to Sea provided refreshments to keep readers caffeinated. — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 1 May 2026

Shake off any jet lag from your travels with a massage and red light therapy from Monarch Ketchum before simultaneously shopping for vintage pieces and getting caffeinated at Maude’s—or spend a few hours browsing the exhibitions at the Sun Valley Museum of Art. — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 5 Feb. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1989, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for caffeinate

• abdicate
• abrogate
• acetate
• activate
• actuate
• aggravate
• agitate
• alginate
• alienate
• allocate
• amputate
• angulate