narcotize

IPA: nˈɑrkʌtaɪz

(transitive) To use a narcotic in order to make (someone) drowsy or insensible; to anesthetize, to drug.
(transitive) To dull the senses of (a person, place etc.).
(transitive) To make into a narcotic.

Examples of "narcotize" in Sentences

He used to drink in order to narcotize his persecutors, now he prays in stead.
You narcotize them; they're given thorazine, they're given various kinds of medication make them a zombie.
No navigation is available, nor is a rear-seat video system, which helps narcotize the children on long trips.
A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience.
He explains that most black junkies really are trying to narcotize themselves against being a black man in the white man's America.
If you were to tell me that, someday, human beings with access to entertainment technologies will narcotize themselves on a steady drip of celebrity blather, I would tell you that you are describing March 2011.
We shall sleep well to-night; but let us sit awhile with nubiferous, or, if we may coin a word, nepheligenous accompaniment, such as shall gently narcotize the over-wearied brain and fold its convolutions for slumber like the leaves of a lily at nightfall.