Meaning of denarcotize | Babel Free
Definitions
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To remove the narcotine from. transitive
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To denature; to alter so as to cancel an intoxicating, addictive, or disagreeable effect. broadly
- 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.
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To render ineffective. figuratively
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To waken; to make aware. figuratively
- To deprive (an addict) of a narcotic drug until there is no longer a physical addiction.
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To remove the issue of narcotics from (a relationship) broadly
- To remove reliance on narcotics from (an organization)
Examples
“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.”
“A small calabash, filled with baste to denarcotize the smoke, is employed for a mouthpiece, and at times the baste serves a double purpose, as in seasons of scarcity the Dinka remove and chew it.”
“Extracts of coca leaves are used by many of us every day as denarcotized coca leaves in the form of certain cola drinks .”
“However, to assure prompt awakening we routinely give postoperative doses of a stimulant which will overcome barbituric acid depression of the cortical centers and, in this way, denarcotize the patient.”
“Evipal came into use as a rectal anesthetic a year or so later and it was felt desirable to denarcotize patients at the close of the operation .”
“Wood concluded that it is possible to denarcotize patients after basal , general or mixed anesthesia.”
“In most cases, the injection of 20 cc. of nikethamide proved sufficient to denarcotize his patients.”
“The promoters whoop it up with visions of seeing the world in which a trip to Atlantic City next summer looms up and a winter jaunt to Palm Beach is part of the pipe dream, but the customer who figures on this denarcotized system of price-cutting will soon find that by carefully husbanding the coupons the average family could save enough in a year to ride out to the water tank in a day coach.”
“To emancipate a man you must find something that shall denarcotize the will, that shall wake it up from its false sleep and reinvigorate it .”
“It is suggested by the Soviets that the working class of the Western democracies need to become "denarcotized" because they are affected by the "opium" of the consumer society's material prosperity so that the following objectives can be achieved:”
“The appearance of a withered old hag, dressed in a red cloak, who favoured me with her presenece and evil eyes for some minutes, I took as a friendly waning to denarcotize myself by judicious degrees, and in a few days I parted company with this extraordinary drug and its accompanying visions .”
“Each patient must be denarcotized, the toleration must be removed, the habit broken up, and the fear replaced by confidence and hope.”
“One of the problems in the treatment of narcotic addicts in the past has been that you may denarcotize them, if you will, or withdraw them from their acute addiction, and then release them and they go right back to their prior addiction.”
“Correa attributes this to Colombia's weak intellectual property rights (IPR) regime, to the urgent need to "denarcotize" U.S.- Colombian relations, and to the negative effects that non-tariff barriers in the U.S. have had on FDI decisions that hinge on exporting back to the U.S. market.”
“Bogota made an explicit attempt to "denarcotize" its historically strong relations with the United States by flatly refusing to be shamed and blamed in a "unilaterally disproportionate" way and by refusing to let the drug problem taint all other bilateral isues, especially those of greater importance.”
“As experts warned of a major unfolding security crisis, one that could easily derail Mexico's young democracy, the Fox administration embarked on a desperate effort to denarcotize U.S. - Mexico relations .”
“On January 5, 1999, he stated that the "first enemy of peace is narcotrafficking. If the FARC takes the decision to eradicate drug crops, they'll do it. Because they definitely have the invluence to carry it out." He added, however: "First they must denarcotize themselves."”
“This seems to have partially met Pastrana's goal of having the FARC denarcotize itself, but it left open the matter of forced eradication of the industrial plantations, a significant source of FARC income.”
CEFR level
C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.