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narcotize

[ nahr-kuh-tahyz ]

verb (used with object)

narcotized, narcotizing.
  1. to subject to or treat with a narcotic; stupefy.
  2. to make dull; stupefy; deaden the awareness of:

    He had used liquor to narcotize his anxieties.



verb (used without object)

narcotized, narcotizing.
  1. to act as a narcotic:

    a remedy that does not heal but merely narcotizes.

narcotize

/ ˈnɑːkəˌtaɪz /

verb

  1. tr to place under the influence of a narcotic drug
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˌnarcotiˈzation, noun
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Other Words From

  • narco·ti·zation noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of narcotize1

First recorded in 1835–45; narcot(ic) + -ize
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Example Sentences

Most are unable to rise above the stylistic miasma of the production — Whitehead sounds narcotized even when Pip isn’t on drugs — or the entirely new words they’ve been asked to say.

The audience necessary to sustain original and ambitious work is narcotized by algorithms or distracted by doomscrolling.

Despite the depths of their wounds — Cusack’s Luce, a celebrated conservative author, finds her dead mother and daughter in her narcotized state — the characters are coldly drawn.

To borrow a word, it narcotizes people in search of real spiritual wisdom.

And while the Boston-born trio doled out narcotized, low-end-heavy rockers, the band took its name not from the opiate, but from “Morpheus,” the Greek god of sleep and dreams.

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