denarcotizing

Verb

denarcotize (third-person singular simple present denarcotizes, present participle denarcotizing, simple past and past participle denarcotized)

1. (transitive) To remove the narcotine from.
   • In consequence of the solubility of narcotina, and insolubility of morphia in ether, it is employed to denarcotize opium in preparing it for making denarcotized laudanum.1840, Robert Hare, A Compendium of the Course of Chemical Instruction in the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, page 530
2. (broadly) To denature; to alter so as to cancel an intoxicating, addictive, or disagreeable effect.
   • Let the chemists redistil, purify, deodorize, denarcotize, and degustatize the crude compound, and there will be obtained a safe material, a pure alcohol, to give strength and stability to the sufficiently sweet and acid juice of the wild and immature grape, that consents and delights to grow on...1861 March, “The Grape: It's Culture and Manufacture at the South”, in De Bow's Review, volume 30, page 351
3. To administer a stimulant to (a person or animal under the influence of a narcotic) in order to counteract the effects of a narcotic drug.
   • However, to assure prompt awakening we routinely give postoperative doses of a stimulant which will overcome barbituric acid depression of the cortical centers and, in this way, denarcotize the patient.1942, Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, page 40
4. (figuratively) To render ineffective.
   • The promoters whoop it up with visions of seeing the world in which a trip to Atlantic City next summer looms up and a winter jaunt to Palm Beach is part of the pipe dream, but the customer who figures on this denarcotized system of price-cutting will soon find that by carefully husbanding the...1914, “With Fire and Force”, in Interstate Medical Journal, volume 21, page 272
5. (figuratively) To waken; to make aware.
   • To emancipate a man you must find something that shall denarcotize the will, that shall wake it up from its false sleep and reinvigorate it .1873, Charles Force Deems, Dr. Deem's Sermons, page 30
6. To deprive (an addict) of a narcotic drug until there is no longer a physical addiction.
   • The appearance of a withered old hag, dressed in a red cloak, who favoured me with her presenece and evil eyes for some minutes, I took as a friendly waning to denarcotize myself by judicious degrees, and in a few days I parted company with this extraordinary drug and its accompanying visions .1869, Clement Mansfield Ingleby, An Introduction to Metaphysic, page 152

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