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单词 narcotize
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narcotizev.

Brit. /ˈnɑːkətʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈnɑrkəˌtaɪz/
Forms: 1500s nacotyse (probably transmission error), 1800s– narcotise, 1800s– narcotize.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: narcotic n., -ize suffix.
Etymology: < narcot- (in narcotic n.) + -ize suffix. Compare post-classical Latin narcotizare (14th cent. in a British source), Middle French narcotizant , adjective (second half of the 15th cent. in an isolated attestation), and French narcotiser (1845). With isolated use in quot. 1526 at sense 1 compare Middle French narcositer, probably transmission error for narcotiser, in 1545 edition of the Le Grant Herbier.
1. transitive. To make (a person or animal) drowsy or insensible with a narcotic; to anaesthetize (a part) thus. Also intransitive.
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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.
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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.
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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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