narcotize

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 Louis Berman M.D.

Giving, giving, eternal giving is bound to narcotize into sodden self-satisfaction, or at last to rouse to protest an awakening soul.

From Child Versus Parent Some Chapters on the Irrepressible Conflict in the Home by Stephen Wise

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 Henryk Sienkiewicz

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 Elizabeth Stoddard

Her Charlotte has the aspect, both stunned and energized, of someone abruptly awakened from a narcotized life.

From New York Times ● May 30, 2019

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

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

He was content to wait until the fever grew, and the poisons of the blood narcotized the dulled brain into indifference, and then goaded it into delirium.

From Never-Fail Blake by Arthur Stringer

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

That’s where “White Noise,” the theater auteur Daniel Fish’s personal distillation of Don DeLillo’s 1985 novel, could be seen during the weekend — hypnotizing, narcotizing, infuriating and, on occasion, seriously waking up its audiences.

From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2019

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

Druro felt the old charm of lamp-posts stealing like a delicate, narcotizing perfume over his senses as he took her hand and listened to her soft murmurs of congratulation.

From Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa by Cynthia Stockley