denarcotize
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To denature; to alter so as to cancel an intoxicating, addictive, or disagreeable effect.
verb
To administer a stimulant to (a person or animal under the influence of a narcotic) in order to counteract the effects of a narcotic drug.
verb
To render ineffective.
verb
To remove the issue of narcotics from (a relationship)
verb
To remove reliance on narcotics from (an organization)
Example Sentences
- "In consequence of the solubility of narcotina, and insolubility of morphia in ether, it is employed to denarcotize opium in preparing it for making denarcotized laudanum."
- "He invented the calorimeter, a votaic arrangement of large plates that produced heat; the deflagrator, a machine for producing heat on the plan of the oxyhydrogen blowpipe; he devised a plan to denarcotize laudanum."
- "The U.S.P.X dropped the old formula for Laudanum and recognizes but one Tincture of Opium, which meets every need. The treatment with paraffin denarcotizes the preparation, making it less likely to produce nausea than the older tincture."
- "Now in making tincture of opium, the student has learned that he uses paraffins to denarcotize the tincture in order to remove the disagreeable odor and, to some extent, the disagreeable flavor."
- "to denarcotize opium"
- "Let the chemists redistil, purify, deodorize, denarcotize, and degustatize the crude compound, and there will be obtained a safe material, a pure alcohol, to give strength and stability to the sufficiently sweet and acid juice of the wild and immature grape, that consents and delights to grow on every hill and valley of our land."
Etymology
From de- + narcotize.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: de
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denarcotization