Verb (used with object) : He had used liquor to narcotize his anxieties. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : a remedy that does not heal but merely narcotizes. From Dictionary.com.
He used to drink in order to narcotize his persecutors, now he prays in stead. From Wordnik.com. [Justin Frank: The Deepest Terror] Reference
He explains that most black junkies really are trying to narcotize themselves against being a black man in the white man's America. From Wordnik.com. [The Autobiography of Malcolm X]
A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience. From Wordnik.com. [INTERNET WIRETAP: The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce (1993 Edition)] Reference
A man whose easy, telegenic charm was able to narcotize into irrelevance all the facts that would have rendered him unelectable in anyone else's skin. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
We shall sleep well to-night; but let us sit awhile with nubiferous, or, if we may coin a word, nepheligenous accompaniment, such as shall gently narcotize the over-wearied brain and fold its convolutions for slumber like the leaves of a lily at nightfall. From Wordnik.com. [Pages from an Old Volume of Life; a collection of essays, 1857-1881] Reference
"I don't drink, narcotize, or simiedive on the job, and I'm honest. From Wordnik.com. [The End of The Matter]
But the contrary we have seen is the truth, for the effects of alcoholics are to reduce the temperature of the body, and instead of stimulating, they narcotize, and reduce the life-forces, and predispose the system to all kinds of disease. ". From Wordnik.com. [Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say] Reference
They rather narcotize than fortify. From Wordnik.com. [Among My Books Second Series] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Marriage Contract] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [A Marriage Contract] Reference
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