The word "narcotize" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the process of using drugs, usually narcotics, to make someone unconscious. For example: "The patient was narcotized for the medical procedure."
A lazy prisoner would sleep excessively and narcotize himself with television.
Anyway, when someone takes too much, they narcotize not only their body, but also their consciousness.
Not only do words infect, egotize, narcotize, and paralyze, but they enter into and color the minutest cells of the brain... - Rudyard Kipling.
This has power, but its tone is borrowed from the poems Cavafy wrote in free verse: resigned, almost narcotized, it suggests a speaker far from the throes and pitches that Cavafy intended for "In Despair" and that Mendelsohn so ably translates.
The analysis of culture was necessary in order to explain why the class struggle had failed to produce a socialist revolution in the Western democracies: the populace had been narcotized.
Ever the measured surgeon, he worked hard to calibrate his dosage to calm his jitters and angst but not cloud his senses or interfere with his medical judgment; on not a few occasions, however, he miscalculated and sailed off to narcotized oblivion, abandoning his responsibilities".
It was the position he held inside my body and, still narcotized and sluiced with postpartum hormones, I cried in recognition and sorrow.
There's a loosely interrelated, narcotized sonic continuum just outside of pop that stretches across half a century or more: drone, ambient, industrial, shoegaze.
Among the reasons to stick with "Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man" is the lightly narcotized sensorium of Mr. Clegg's prose.
Nearly three years ago, Mr. Tesfaye released his first songs online, deeply narcotized music that carried the DNA of Terence Trent D'Arby, Prince, Michael Jackson, and also the Smiths and DJ Screw.
"She found a friendship with her instabilities and turned it immediately into questions that are dazzled, rather than narcotized," the writer Wayne Koestenbaum, with whom Nelson studied at CUNY, told me.
