narcotize

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Wise, Stephen

You may narcotize us with the sedative of your content.

From The Torch Bearer by Marquis, Reina Melcher

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)

There have been.—Lawrence!" the scent of the honeysuckle pinned into her blouse seemed to narcotize all his senses with its irresistible sweetness, "you will be true to me, won't you?

From Nightfall by Pryde, Anthony