Definitions
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- adjective under the influence of narcotics
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Examples
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The social, economic and political realities in the Americas are already "narcotised".
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A failed "war on drugs" in a "narcotised" hemisphere makes a new and cooperative approach urgent.
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The social, economic and political realities in the Americas are already "narcotised".
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The social, economic and political realities in the Americas are already "narcotised".
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A failed "war on drugs" in a "narcotised" hemisphere makes a new and cooperative approach urgent.
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Out on the roads converging onto the site, it was a vision from Transylvania: staggering bodies, bloodless faces, and expressionless, narcotised eyes.
Buried Alive, The Biography of Janis Joplin Friedman, Myra 1973
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The witch narcotised her pupils in order to produce in them delusive visions; the surgeon stupifies his patient to prevent the pain of an operation being felt.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 Various
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But the patient is neither in the state of asphyxia, nor is he narcotised, nor drunk.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 Various
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The atmosphere is opiated; life is a lounge; everything comes and goes in carelessness; all the worshippers are narcotised in thoughtlessness, or sunk in profound and perilous sleep.
The Epistles of St. Peter 1817-1893 1910
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For example, a nerve when narcotised by chloroform exhibits a diminishing response as the action of the anæsthetic proceeds.
Response in the Living and Non-Living Jagadis Chandra Bose 1897
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