adrenalizev.
/əˈdrɛnəlʌɪz/, U.S. /əˈdrɛnəˌlaɪz/ 1. transitive. Chiefly Surgery. To treat with adrenaline. Now rare.
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1905 Laryngoscope 15 836 The floor of the nose and the roof of the mouth are cocainized and adrenalized.
1914 J. Wright & H. Smith Text-bk. Dis. Nose & Throat v. 148 After cocainizing and adrenalizing the inferior meatus well up under the inferior turbinate anteriorly, the trocar is introduced.
1950 D. B. Kirby Surg. Cataract xiii. 280/2 The pupil is adrenalized and after about fifteen minutes a keratome section is made.
1961 Vision Res. 1 228 Frogs adrenalized in the dark-adapted state exhibited a higher absolute threshold.
2.
a. intransitive. To produce adrenaline; to become stressed, excited, or energized.
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1933 L. Berg Human Personality iv. 78 Combativeness, in man or animal, is determined by the size of his medulla and by his ability to ‘adrenalize’.
1977 D. Morris Manwatching 167 (caption) When we adrenalize, in a state of tension, many body changes occur giving tell-tale signs that we are under pressure.
1988 PC Week 18 July c15/3 You adrenalize. You fixate. You push to the pain barrier.
1998 Chattanooga (Tennessee) Free Press (Nexis) 20 June b6 OK couch potatoes, prepare to adrenalize. That's right, it's time for the X-Games.
2003 C. H. Johnson Duplicity lxiv. 102 I put the phone down and lit another cigarette. I realized I had begun to adrenalize.
b. transitive. To rouse into activity; to stir up, excite, energize.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > carry on vigorously [verb (transitive)] > make vigorous or energetic
string1599
invigorate1646
energate1647
to light up1712
alacrify1864
energize1876
power1898
pep1912
to zip up1927
volt1930
adrenalize1935
1935 Los Angeles Times 19 May ii. 4/2 The slot machine racket follows the lines of others... A merchant who thinks he might adrenalize his business a bit buys one.
1947 L. Gurko Angry Decade 7 Roosevelt's policies adrenalized American economy.
1954 Life 19 Apr. 26/1 Communism..has not terrorized its Western prey like frozen rabbits; it has instead..adrenalized them into resistance.
1985 Boston Globe 25 May 27/4 The members of the band are young cats who believe in adrenalizing the standard marching-band book.
2006 N.Y. Mag. 26 June 40/2 If there's even a chance that the unfamiliar setting or the presence of peers will adrenalize your kid into becoming a homewrecker.
Derivatives
aˈdrenalizing n. and adj.
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1915 M. K. Meyers tr. W. Falta Ductless Glandular Dis. viii. 355 As is known, chronic adrenalizing of rabbits can produce sclerosis of the great vessels.
1977 H. P. Baptiste in F. H. Klassen & D. M. Gollnick Pluralism & Amer. Teacher vii. 179 The adrenalizing effect of support monies for establishment of a program cannot be overstated.
1997 D. Richo When Love meets Fear 131 I simply sit with my own reality, purely,..without any adrenalizing or analyzing or editorializing.
2006 T. Anderson Riding Magic Carpet (2008) v. 152 Only the nature of a search, or a voyage, can lead to that adrenalising thrill of discovery that is associated with the perfect wave.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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