单词 | narcotize |
释义 | narcotizev. 1. transitive. To make (a person or animal) drowsy or insensible with a narcotic; to anaesthetize (a part) thus. Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > drugging a person or thing > drug [verb (transitive)] narcotize1526 potion1611 druga1730 hocus1831 dope1889 slug1925 snow1927 bomb1950 hit1953 to hop up1968 1526 Grete Herball sig. Ddiiv/2 Narcotycke is whan a medycyne is so colde of nature yt through her grete coldenesse it maketh one to swelle and taketh or enslepeth dyuers membres of a mannys body..and he yt is thus is nacotysed [sic]. 1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xiv. 151 He was evidently deeply narcotised. 1860 R. F. Burton in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 1859 29 243 Near the coast the people narcotise fish with the juice of certain plants. 1865 Reader 1 Apr. 374/3 They narcotize, but do not nicotinize themselves. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 823 Giving morphia by hypodermic injection in such large doses as to keep the patient deeply narcotised. 1939 T. L. Green Pract. Animal Biol. i. 8 A drop of dilute menthol solution which narcotizes the animal. 1973 Nature 2 Mar. 66/2 When the squid giant axon is lightly narcotized with ethanol, the height of the action potential is reduced. 1995 E. W. Knight-Jones & J. S. Ryland in P. J. Hayward & J. S. Ryland Handbk. Marine Fauna N.W. Europe vii. 279 To narcotize, place the worm in a small quantity of cool seawater. 2. transitive. To make less sensitive, to dull or deaden; spec. to dull the senses of (a person, community, etc.). Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > make emotionally unfeeling [verb (transitive)] > deaden or dull the emotions stupefy?a1425 dullc1440 benumbc1485 slumber?1533 extinguish1540 extinct1542 numb1561 damp1570 hebetate1574 daunt1581 frostbite1593 hebete1597 blunt1600 unedgea1625 engross1626 astonish1635 consopite1647 bate1649 opiate1650 blura1653 hebescate1657 torpefy1808 dozena1810 dullify1838 hebetize1845 chloroform1849 narcotize1852 sodden1863 vastate1892 the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > make less violent or severe [verb (transitive)] > cause to lose vitality or vigour languisha1464 castrate1554 damp1564 dead1586 flag1602 wooden1641 dispirit1647 deaden1684 disvigorate1694 devitalize1849 narcotize1852 wilt1855 woodenize1877 abirritate1882 1852 U.S. Democratic Rev. Oct. 398/2 Everything that could narcotise the soul into quiescent and reverential conservatism, or entwine itself about the affections or superstitions of men. 1853 National Era 22 Dec. 202 The demagogues, who have been laboring to narcotize the public mind with the delusion of a ‘final settlement’ of the Slavery Question. 1876 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 2nd Ser. 248 They rather narcotize than fortify. 1894 G. Du Maurier Trilby II. 252 He longed for his old brain-disease to come back and narcotise his trouble. 1896 K. P. Wormeley tr. H. de Balzac Marriage Contract in La Comédie Humaine VI. i. 9 I'm not speaking of all that will happen to annoy, bore, irritate, coerce, oppose, tyrannize, narcotize, paralyze, and idiotize a man in marriage. 1942 Sun (Baltimore) 1 Apr. 10/1 It is not very difficult for a Goebbels to map out a program for narcotizing the German people. 1970 A. Toffler Future Shock xvi. 323 The family man who retreats into his evening..allows televised fantasy to narcotize him. 1986 S. Forward Men who hate Women (1987) i. iii. 67 He uses sex to narcotize deepseated anxieties. 1994 Details Oct. 144/2 Semiotician Marshall Blonsky invokes a series of academic colossi..to claim that Melrose narcotizes its young audience into submission. 3. transitive. To make into a narcotic; to imbue with narcotic or soporific qualities. ΚΠ 1869 R. F. Burton Explor. Highlands Brazil II. 298 The leaves are used to narcotize water. 1981 T. C. Boyle Water Music (1983) ii. 235 The sun hangs overhead like a lantern, the essence of new grass and apple blossom narcotizes the air. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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