narcotize
Example Sentences
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Actually the soaps do not kill bacteria, they permanently "narcotize" the germs.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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 Sienkiewicz, Henryk
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 Stoddard, Elizabeth
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)