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
Giving, giving, eternal giving is bound to narcotize into sodden self-satisfaction, or at last to rouse to protest an awakening soul.
From Child Versus Parent Some Chapters on the Irrepressible Conflict in the Home by Wise, Stephen
They fascinate even when they excite, and soothe and narcotize in the communication of their subtle power.
From A Trooper Galahad by King, Charles
His grandfather was a conservative bourgeois of a superior type, who was the author of treatises designed to narcotize the forces of rebellion of his time.
From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.
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 Stoddard, Elizabeth
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