narcotize
Americanverb (used with object)
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to subject to or treat with a narcotic; stupefy.
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to make dull; stupefy; deaden the awareness of.
He had used liquor to narcotize his anxieties.
verb (used without object)
verb
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of narcotize
First recorded in 1835–45; narcot(ic) + -ize
Example Sentences
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Actually the soaps do not kill bacteria, they permanently "narcotize" the germs.
From Time Magazine Archive
They appeared to me, though, as if pursuing something beyond Gain, which should narcotize or stimulate them to forget that man's life was a vain going to and fro.
From The Morgesons by Elizabeth Stoddard
There have been.—Lawrence!" the scent of the honeysuckle pinned into her blouse seemed to narcotize all his senses with its irresistible sweetness, "you will be true to me, won't you?
From Nightfall by Anthony Pryde
You may narcotize us with the sedative of your content.
From The Torch Bearer by Reina Melcher Marquis
And nevertheless he desired at present to stay in it, even though for a few days, in order that he might gaze longer upon Panna Marynia and, as he called it, "further narcotize himself."
From Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland by Henryk Sienkiewicz
The audience necessary to sustain original and ambitious work is narcotized by algorithms or distracted by doomscrolling.
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2023
Alongside the legendary Port Arthur duo UGK, rappers like Z-Ro, Lil’ Keke, Lil’ Troy, Paul Wall, and Lil’ Flip concocted a narcotized bang and sparkle that one can still hear in hip-hop.
From The New Yorker ● May 20, 2019
Sometimes it seems to me that young people are, indeed, entirely too quiet, too narcotized by gadgets, games and irrelevancies to notice the world is going to heck around them.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 14, 2014
We are a lazy and narcotized culture and it is hard to not just go to sleep.
From Salon ● May 10, 2013
She might have been some ancient oracle reciting her credo, and she seemed to have narcotized that magnetic current that had always vibrated between them.
From Black Oxen by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
His treatments included electroconvulsive therapy, during which doctors use electric currents to spark a brain seizure, and also narcotizing drugs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2021
It’s equally hard, though, to march through an entire regular season without lapsing into narcotizing detail, and this is a danger by which Jackson refuses to be intimidated.
From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2014
For the NFL, the powerful narcotizing effects of gamification don’t stop there.
From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2013
More than almost any other TV show, the original “Beavis and Butt-Head” was a celebration of the immersive, narcotizing effect of television, of the thrills of passive consumption.
From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2011
With a view to narcotizing them while in this condition, menthol was applied to the water but did not seem to have much effect.
From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Sir Douglas Mawson
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