narcotize
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Actually the soaps do not kill bacteria, they permanently "narcotize" the germs.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
His grandfather was a conservative bourgeois of a superior type, who was the author of treatises designed to narcotize the forces of rebellion of his time.
From The Glands Regulating Personality by Louis Berman M.D.
There have been.—Lawrence!" the scent of the honeysuckle pinned into her blouse seemed to narcotize all his senses with its irresistible sweetness, "you will be true to me, won't you?
From Nightfall by Anthony Pryde
You may narcotize us with the sedative of your content.
From The Torch Bearer by Reina Melcher Marquis
Her Charlotte has the aspect, both stunned and energized, of someone abruptly awakened from a narcotized life.
From New York Times ● May 30, 2019
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
He was content to wait until the fever grew, and the poisons of the blood narcotized the dulled brain into indifference, and then goaded it into delirium.
From Never-Fail Blake by Arthur Stringer
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
That’s where “White Noise,” the theater auteur Daniel Fish’s personal distillation of Don DeLillo’s 1985 novel, could be seen during the weekend — hypnotizing, narcotizing, infuriating and, on occasion, seriously waking up its audiences.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2019
It’s equally hard, though, to march through an entire regular season without lapsing into narcotizing detail, and this is a danger by which Jackson refuses to be intimidated.
From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2014
For the NFL, the powerful narcotizing effects of gamification don’t stop there.
From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2013
The narcotizing spell had fallen suddenly from him again, and life and his future fortunes looked uninterestingly grey.
From Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa by Cynthia Stockley
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