nicotinize

American

[nik-uh-tee-nahyz, nik-uh-tee-nahyz] / ˈnɪk ə tiˌnaɪz, ˌnɪk əˈti naɪz /

especially British, nicotinise

verb (used with object)

nicotinized, nicotinizing

to drug or impregnate with nicotine.

Other Word Forms

denicotinize

verb (used with object)

Etymology

Origin of nicotinize

First recorded in 1860–65; nicotine + -ize

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nicotinized

Doña Pasa would tide over the vast chasms of nicotinized silence with music from her guitar, while she wondered if the romances she had read about gallant and more—more contiguous cavaliers were all lies.

From Cabbages and Kings by Henry, O.

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