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. 

Cold realization burst the narcotizing bubble of nostalgia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The False Mirror]

And there's always the narcotizing amount of vapid "reality" entertainment clogging the airwaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul Nair: Let Go Of Retro] Reference

But is there really such a sharp line between the respectably energizing and the shamefully narcotizing?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Now, Read it Again] Reference

The narcotizing spell had fallen suddenly from him again, and life and his future fortunes looked uninterestingly grey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference

I imagine I must have felt like staying away from hustling for a while, going to some of the clubs at night, and narcotizing with my friends.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Autobiography of Malcolm X]

Perhaps the combination of extended enforced rest and whatever narcotizing agent had been used on him had resulted in a heightening of his perception.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flinx In Flux]

Druro felt the old charm of lamp-posts stealing like a delicate, narcotizing perfume over his senses as he took her hand and listened to her soft murmurs of congratulation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference

Instead of fuming about the situation, he spent it in one of your company's labs, gengineering the modified molecular structure of an illegal but well-known and widely available epidural narcotizing agent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flinx's Folly]

This is journalistic Ambien, narcotizing people who've just woken up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slate Magazine] Reference

Jamil: 100% agree with Peach, the program is self indulging and mind narcotizing, in times of.    From Wordnik.com.  [debito.org] Reference

The fish is not so good as that caught further down, and the natives have a habit of narcotizing it: the Silurus electricus is exceptionally plentiful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2] Reference

Thursday night at the Music Hall of Williamsburg that band, Warpaint, followed Ms. Mozgawa wherever she took it, its narcotizing hum swept along by a rollicking thunderstorm.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

On all but the strongest minds it casts a narcotizing spell, so that thought is arrested, and originality, vivacity, individuality become a crime -- a shame that must be hidden.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sacred and Profane Love] Reference

It was something more than a dormant consciousness of beauty, though the knowledge that men would turn back to a face so wistful as hers, and their judgment could be dulled by a smile so narcotizing, had not a little to do with the woman's achieved serenity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Never-Fail Blake] Reference

"If nothing else, it suggested that the narcotizing procedure was not fatal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cat is a Metaphor] Reference

I mean, you know, in a public -- in giant public setting, her speeches are still narcotizing, you know, they're like chloroform or something, but in tiny, tiny setting, she's actually, charming, and she can go, you know, farm by farm, room by room, person by person, and convert them.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 6, 2005] Reference