narcotize

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

His grandfather was a conservative bourgeois of a superior type, who was the author of treatises designed to narcotize the forces of rebellion of his time.

From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.

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

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)

You may narcotize us with the sedative of your content.

From The Torch Bearer by Marquis, Reina Melcher