denarcotize

English

Etymology

From de- +‎ narcotize.

Verb

denarcotize (third-person singular simple present denarcotizes, present participle denarcotizing, simple past and past participle denarcotized)

1. (transitive) To remove the narcotine from.
   • 1840, Robert Hare, A Compendium of the Course of Chemical Instruction in the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, page 530:

     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.

   • 1920, Howard Atwood Kelly, ‎Walter Lincoln Burrage, American Medical Biographies, page 490:

     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.

   • 1926, Joseph Price Remington, ‎Ernest Fullerton Cook, ‎Charles Herbert LaWall, Remington's Practice of Pharmacy, page 378:

     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.

   • 1927, Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, page 108:

     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

2. (by extension) To denature; to alter so as to cancel an intoxicating, addictive, or disagreeable effect.
   • 1861 March, “The Grape: It's Culture and Manufacture at the South”, in De Bow's Review, volume 30, page 351:

     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.

   • 1874, Georg Schweinfurth, “The Land of the Pygmies”, in The Canadian Monthly and National Review, volume 6, page 444:

     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.

   • 1969, Forum - Volumes 7-11, page 11:

     Extracts of coca leaves are used by many of us every day as denarcotized coca leaves in the form of certain cola drinks .

3. 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.
   • 1942, Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, page 40:

     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.

   • 1943, Bulletin of the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists, page 29:

     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 .

   • 1944, Richard Charles Adams, Intravenous Anesthesia, page 581:

     Wood concluded that it is possible to denarcotize patients after basal , general or mixed anesthesia.

   • 1957, Alcoholism, page 104:

     In most cases, the injection of 20 cc. of nikethamide proved sufficient to denarcotize his patients.

4. (figurative) To render ineffective.
   • 1914, “With Fire and Force”, in Interstate Medical Journal, volume 21, page 272:

     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.

5. (figurative) To waken; to make aware.
   • 1873, Charles Force Deems, Dr. Deem's Sermons, page 30:

     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 .

   • 1975, East West Digest - Volume 11, Part 2, page 840:

     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:

6. To deprive (an addict) of a narcotic drug until there is no longer a physical addiction.
   • 1869, Clement Mansfield Ingleby, An Introduction to Metaphysic, page 152:

     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 .

   • 1918, George D. Swaine, “Regarding the Luminal Treatment of Morphine Addiction”, in The American Journal of Clinical Medicine, volume 25, page 611:

     Each patient must be denarcotized, the toleration must be removed, the habit broken up, and the fear replaced by confidence and hope.

   • 1969, Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Appropriations, page 500:

     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.

7. (by extension) To remove the issue of narcotics from (a relationship)
   • 1998, The Andean Community and the United States, page 401:

     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.

   • 2003, Berkeley Journal of International Law - Volume 21, page 800:

     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.

   • 2012, Wil G. Pansters, Violence, Coercion, and State-Making in Twentieth-Century, page 148:

     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 .

8. To remove reliance on narcotics from (an organization)
   • 1999, Gabriel Marcella, Colombia's Three Wars: U.S. Strategy at the Crossroads, page 27:

     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."

   • 2001, Gabriel Marcella, Plan Colombia: The Strategic and Operational Imperatives, page 15:

     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.

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