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Narcotize

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To place under the influence of a narcotic.

v. To put to sleep; lull.

v. To dull; deaden.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To use a narcotic in order to make someone drowsy or insensible; to anesthetize.

v. To dull the senses.

v. To make something into a narcotic.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To imbue with, or subject to the influence of, a narcotic; to put into a state of narcosis.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To bring under the influence of a narcotic; affect with stupor.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. administer narcotics to

Word Usage

"If you were to tell me that, someday, human beings with access to entertainment technologies will narcotize themselves on a steady drip of celebrity blather, I would tell you that you are describing March 2011."

Verb Form

narcotized narcotizes narcotizing

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

dose drug

Form

narcotized narcotizing

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

stupefy