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lethargize

American

[leth-er-jahyz] / ˈlɛθ ərˌdʒaɪz /

especially British, lethargise

verb (used with object)

lethargized, lethargizing

to make lethargic; stupefy.

Etymology

Origin of lethargize

First recorded in 1605–15; letharg(y) + -ize

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lethargize lethargizing

He wills that we should extinguish our imagination—so lethargize it that it can no longer form images—imprison our senses, annihilate our faculties.

From En Route by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)

Where weakness proceeds from excess of irritability, there bitters act beneficially; because all bitters are poisons, and operate by stilling, and depressing, and lethargizing the irritability.

From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson

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