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  • adjective under the influence of narcotics.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of narcotize.
  • adjective Drowsy or insensible from narcotics.

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  • adjective under the influence of narcotics

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Examples

  • Those recalling the narcotized climate of the early Obama administration won't be surprised that these other warnings were never heard underneath the waving of pom-poms and the mindless chanting of the mantra "It's not the personnel, it's the policy."

    CounterPunch 2010

  • He, a product of the sixties, still "care [s] about literature," while today's "narcotized" students read "inferior literature."

    University Diaries 2009

  • But seeing my students and other young people narcotized with iPads and cell phones in a state in which they are oblivious to the human beings around them, makes me realize how lonely they are, trying to find a way in texting and phoning to substitute remote communication for intimacy.

    Joel Shatzky: Educating for Democracy: Japan and Teaching for the Future Joel Shatzky 2011

  • The potheads, though, believe she is a fink for abandoning their narcotized orbit.

    Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2010

  • Carli, unlucky at love but still hopeful, works at a deli alongside curmudgeonly Ed Asner, who serves up grouchy asides "You want a spark, chew on a lamp cord" with all the energy of a narcotized bulldog.

    Roush Review: Comedy, Animated and Rehashed 2011

  • But seeing my students and other young people narcotized with iPads and cell phones in a state in which they are oblivious to the human beings around them, makes me realize how lonely they are, trying to find a way in texting and phoning to substitute remote communication for intimacy.

    Joel Shatzky: Educating for Democracy: Japan and Teaching for the Future Joel Shatzky 2011

  • "Well, I just stop I guess" the narcotized looking Boyle warbled almost incoherently.

    Melody Breyer-Grell: My Issue With Susan Boyle Melody Breyer-Grell 2010

  • "Well, I just stop I guess" the narcotized looking Boyle warbled almost incoherently.

    Melody Breyer-Grell: My Issue With Susan Boyle Melody Breyer-Grell 2010

  • On the morning of October, 17, 2004, deeply narcotized on opiates in a hospital bed in Boston and surrounded by his wife and his children, the man dies of metastatic lung cancer, a sliver of asbestos still lodged in the periphery of his lung.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • "Well, I just stop I guess" the narcotized looking Boyle warbled almost incoherently.

    Melody Breyer-Grell: My Issue With Susan Boyle Melody Breyer-Grell 2010

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