narcotize

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Berman, Louis, M.D.

You may narcotize us with the sedative of your content.

From The Torch Bearer by Marquis, Reina Melcher

By day and by night I was surrounded with influence intended to beguile me from the past, to narcotize memory, to make me in reality the heartless, soulless, scoffing creature that I certainly seem.

From Infelice by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)

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 Wise, Stephen