Narcotize - September 2nd, 2017

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Definitions for narcotize

1. to make dull; stupefy; deaden the awareness of: He had used liquor to narcotize his anxieties.
2. to subject to or treat with a narcotic; stupefy.
3. to act as a narcotic: a remedy that does not heal but merely narcotizes.

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Citations for narcotize

I'm not speaking of all that will happen to annoy, bore, irritate, coerce, oppose, tyrannize, narcotize, paralyze, and idiotize a man in marriage, in that struggle of two beings always in one another's presence, bound forever, who have coupled each other under the strange impression that they were suited.Honoré de Balzac, The Marriage Contract, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, 1885

Television, one gathers, is facing up to the new realities by flinging out its arms to the past and scheduling more of the same--bright new faces to be sure, handsome production values, glittering decor and facades for stories and situations that cannarcotize a nation.Thomas Thompson, "The Crapshoot for Half a Billion," Life, September 10, 1971

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