narcotize

Actually the soaps do not kill bacteria, they permanently "narcotize" the germs.

From Time Magazine Archive

They appeared to me, though, as if pursuing something beyond Gain, which should narcotize or stimulate them to forget that man's life was a vain going to and fro.

From The Morgesons by Elizabeth Stoddard

And nevertheless he desired at present to stay in it, even though for a few days, in order that he might gaze longer upon Panna Marynia and, as he called it, "further narcotize himself."

From Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland by Henryk Sienkiewicz

Giving, giving, eternal giving is bound to narcotize into sodden self-satisfaction, or at last to rouse to protest an awakening soul.

From Child Versus Parent Some Chapters on the Irrepressible Conflict in the Home by Stephen Wise

You may narcotize us with the sedative of your content.

From The Torch Bearer by Reina Melcher Marquis

The audience necessary to sustain original and ambitious work is narcotized by algorithms or distracted by doomscrolling.

From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2023

Alongside the legendary Port Arthur duo UGK, rappers like Z-Ro, Lil’ Keke, Lil’ Troy, Paul Wall, and Lil’ Flip concocted a narcotized bang and sparkle that one can still hear in hip-hop.

From The New Yorker ● May 20, 2019

Sometimes it seems to me that young people are, indeed, entirely too quiet, too narcotized by gadgets, games and irrelevancies to notice the world is going to heck around them.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 14, 2014

We are a lazy and narcotized culture and it is hard to not just go to sleep.

From Salon ● May 10, 2013

Senility and infancy are by nature normally narcotized.

From Origin and Nature of Emotions by George W. (Washington) Crile

His treatments included electroconvulsive therapy, during which doctors use electric currents to spark a brain seizure, and also narcotizing drugs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2021

Both are set in decaying manufacturing towns — places where the men and women scuff and strain against economic morbidity, class invisibility and narcotizing boredom.

From New York Times ● May 17, 2017

For the NFL, the powerful narcotizing effects of gamification don’t stop there.

From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2013

He blamed the narcotizing effect of television, the "Glee Club-ization of music" and, of course, the Internet, which he described as "a wall of noise" filled with fake Facebook friends and impotent bloggers.

From Chicago Tribune ● Mar. 17, 2011

With a view to narcotizing them while in this condition, menthol was applied to the water but did not seem to have much effect.

From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Sir Douglas Mawson