Wiktionary
NARCOTIZE, verb. (transitive) To use a narcotic in order to make (someone) drowsy or insensible; to anesthetize, to drug. [from 16th c.]
NARCOTIZE, verb. (transitive) To dull the senses of (a person, place etc.). [from 19th c.]
NARCOTIZE, verb. (transitive) To make into a narcotic. [from 19th c.]
Dictionary definition
NARCOTIZE, verb. Administer narcotics to.
Wise words
Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could
conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly
sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had
this power.