alcoholize

From alcohol +‎ -ize.

alcoholize (third-person singular simple present alcoholizes, present participle alcoholizing, simple past and past participle alcoholized)

1. To convert into alcohol by fermentation, or to increase the concentration of alcohol by rectification
2. To infuse or saturate with an alcoholic spirit
3. To subject to the influence of alcohol
4. (obsolete) To reduce to a fine powder

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “alcoholize”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.