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narcose

UK/nɑːˈkəʊs/US/nɑɹˈkoʊs/

narcose verb: to place in a state of narcosis; to narcotize.

Verb

narcose (third-person singular simple present narcoses, present participle narcosing, simple past and past participle narcosed)

  1. (rare, transitive) To place in a state of narcosis; to narcotize.
    • He then used only 1,250 p. p. m., and although none died, four out of five were depressed and irritated or narcosed.1936, Alice Hamilton, Recent Changes in the Painters' Trade, page 52
    • The extracts of these plants are being used in folklore medicine. Metabolites belonging to different chemical classes have been identified as antifungal agents and in chemical narcosing of fish.2016, Neelam Garg, Microbes in Food and Health, page 85

Noun

narcose (plural narcoses)

  1. (obsolete, rare) The state of being under narcosis; unconsciousness.
    • Persons affected with an idiosyncrasy against this particular substance, and neurasthenic sufferers may easily be seized with a vomituritive tendency after the expiration of the narcose […]1889, Journal of Materia Medica, volume 27, page 141
    • If, then, all anæsthetists would insist upon complete anæsthesis before even the simplest operation was proceeded with, we should hear less frequently of the fatal results of “a few whiffs,” when death is not really due to the use of the anaesthetic, but to the shock consequent upon its not being...1892, William H. Steele, 567 Useful Hints for the Busy Dentist, page 199

narcose meaning in Tamil

narcose in Tamil

மதிமயக்கம்

Forms of narcose

Verb
third-person singular presentnarcoses
present participlenarcosing
past participlenarcosed
pastnarcosed
Noun
pluralnarcoses

Questions about narcose

What does narcose mean?
Narcose means to place in a state of narcosis; to narcotize.
What is narcose in Tamil?
Narcose in Tamil is மதிமயக்கம். See Narcose meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is narcose?
Narcose can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce narcose?
Narcose is pronounced /nɑɹˈkoʊs/ (US).
What is the past tense of narcose?
The past tense of narcose is narcosed.

Words near narcose in the dictionary

  1. narcopathic
  2. narcopaths
  3. narcopolitical
  4. narcopolitics
  5. narcos
  6. narcose
  7. narcosed
  8. narcoses
  9. narcosing
  10. narcosis
  11. narcossism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: narcose (page history and authors); narcose (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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