narcotize

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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)

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 Pryde, Anthony

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

The warm air and the glow of the beautiful rooms seemed to narcotize her, and Rose allowed herself to be led away like a sleepy child.

From Rose of Dutcher's Coolly by Garland, Hamlin

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

The excellent Ms. Rogers returns as Harry’s frowzy helpmeet, a woman narcotized by monotony, who can still put on the dog for a handsome stranger.

From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2018

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

Thus, when he saw acts which his reason must have told him were indefensible he was still narcotized by this conception of some new standard of right.

From New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index by Various

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

This deeply autobiographical novel recounts growing up gay in rural France, where the men and women scuff and strain against economic morbidity, class invisibility and narcotizing boredom.

From New York Times ● May 25, 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

An instant alleviation and narcotizing of pain, as is usual in the case of tooth ache, is sufficient for him even in the severest suffering.

From Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm