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narcotized

narcotized is the simple past and past participle of narcotize.

Meaning of narcotize

Verb

narcotize (third-person singular simple present narcotizes, present participle narcotizing, simple past and past participle narcotized)

  1. (transitive) To use a narcotic in order to make (someone) drowsy or insensible; to anesthetize, to drug.
  2. (transitive) To dull the senses of (a person, place etc.).
  3. (transitive) To make into a narcotic.
    • The sun hangs overhead like a lantern, the essence of new grass and apple blossom narcotizes the air, the clack and whir of the wheels have a quelling, hypnotic effect on the passengers.1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 235

Adjective

narcotized (comparative more narcotized, superlative most narcotized)

  1. Drowsy or insensible from narcotics.

Forms of narcotized

Verb
alternative formnarcotised
Adjective
comparativemore narcotized
superlativemost narcotized

Words formed from narcotized

Questions about narcotized

What does narcotized mean?
Narcotized means drowsy or insensible from narcotics.
What is narcotized the simple past and past participle of?
Narcotized is the simple past and past participle of narcotize.
What part of speech is narcotized?
Narcotized is an adjective.

Words near narcotized in the dictionary

  1. narcotist
  2. narcotists
  3. narcotization
  4. narcotizations
  5. narcotize
  6. narcotized
  7. narcotizes
  8. narcotizing
  9. narcotoline
  10. narcotorpedo
  11. narcotorpedoes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: narcotized (page history and authors); narcotize (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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