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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 orinsensible from narcotics.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective under the influence of narcotics
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Examples
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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
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He, a product of the sixties, still "care [s] about literature," while today's "narcotized" students read "inferior literature."
University Diaries 2009
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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
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The potheads, though, believe she is a fink for abandoning their narcotized orbit.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2010
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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.
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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
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"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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"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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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
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"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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