lethargize

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English

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Etymology

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From lethargy +‎ -ize.

Verb

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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.

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