narcotizing

But is there really such a sharp line between the respectably energizing and the shamefully narcotizing?

Now, Read it Again 2009

Comedy Central itself, has taken the temperature of the real world that MTV is too busy narcotizing to notice and the prognosis is next-level narrative.

Scott Thill: The Daily Show. The Colbert Report. Happy Birthday to Me. 2008

And there's always the narcotizing amount of vapid "reality" entertainment clogging the airwaves.

Paul Nair: Let Go Of Retro 2008

The fish is not so good as that caught further down, and the natives have a habit of narcotizing it: the Silurus electricus is exceptionally plentiful.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

Instead of fuming about the situation, he spent it in one of your company's labs, gengineering the modified molecular structure of an illegal but well-known and widely available epidural narcotizing agent.

Flinx's Folly Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

The torpedo narcotizes the creatures that it wants to catch, overpowering them by the power of shock that is resident in its body, and feeds upon them; it also hides in the sand and mud, and catches all the creatures that swim in its way and come under its narcotizing influence.

The History of Animals 2002

Eventually the pain ebbed and she began to feel tranquil again; a narcotizing effect seemed to have pervaded her brain—a natural secretion of endorphins, she thought instinctively—and she felt consciousness begin to slip away.

Star Trek Voyager Mosaic Jeri Taylor 1996

Eventually the pain ebbed and she began to feel tranquil again; a narcotizing effect seemed to have pervaded her brain—a natural secretion of endorphins, she thought instinctively—and she felt consciousness begin to slip away.

Star Trek Voyager Mosaic Jeri Taylor 1996

Eventually the pain ebbed and she began to feel tranquil again; a narcotizing effect seemed to have pervaded her brain—a natural secretion of endorphins, she thought instinctively—and she felt consciousness begin to slip away.

Mosaic Jeri Taylor 1996

Cold realization burst the narcotizing bubble of nostalgia.

The False Mirror Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1992