lethargize

English

Etymology

lethargy +‎ -ize

Verb

lethargize (third-person singular simple present lethargizes, present participle lethargizing, simple past and past participle lethargized)

1. To make lethargic.
   • May 23, 1830, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk

     All bitters are poison, and act by stilling, and depressing, and lethargizing the irritability.

References

• “lethargize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.