The Collaborative International Dictionary
Narcotize \Nar"co*tize\ (n[aum]r"k[-o]*t[imac]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Narcotized (n[aum]r"k[-o]*t[imac]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. Narcotizing (n[aum]r"k[-o]*t[imac]*z[i^]ng).] To imbue with, or subject to the influence of, a narcotic; to put into a state of narcosis.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To use a narcotic in order to make (someone) drowsy or insensible; to anesthetize, to drug. (from 16th c.) 2 (context transitive English) To dull the senses of (a person, place etc.). (from 19th c.) 3 (context transitive English) To make into a narcotic. (from 19th c.)
WordNet
v. administer narcotics to [syn: narcotise]
Usage examples of "narcotize".
The result is that though some dogs get narcotized in spite of the vomiting, most do not.
Lifting it from the floor, where it had lain hidden beneath the bodies of the narcotized toddlers, she held it up to the light, inspecting it carefully from every direction.
The Dalai now has his followers narcotized, he speaks to them in their language.
A scrolling graph of brain-wave function showed him to still be in a state of narcotized sleep, though with abnormal spikes of activity throughout the thalamocortical zones.
She had arranged for my transfer to Greenwood from the clinic to which the police had taken me, with instructions to keep me narcotized, while Eric began arrangements for his coronation in Amber.
He lowered his eyes and brought himself into middle-density meditation, narcotizing his emotions.
The Kazon's foolish insistence on narcotizing him had precluded any of the sophisticated testing that might have allowed Trakis to ascertain if the species was sentient.
Instead of fuming about the situation, he spent it in one of your company's labs, gengineering the modified molecular structure of an illegal but well-known and widely available epidural narcotizing agent.
Hypothermia switched off the survival instinct with a narcotizing pall as effective as that produced by an alcoholic binge.
Perhaps the combination of extended enforced rest and whatever narcotizing agent had been used on him had resulted in a heightening of his perception.
If nothing else, it suggested that the narcotizing procedure was not fatal.
The family man who retreats into his evening with the help of a few martinis and allows televised fantasy to narcotize him, at least works during the day, performing a social function upon which others are dependent.