lethargize
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Etymology edit
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lethargize (third-person singular simple present lethargizes, present participle lethargizing, simple past and past participle lethargized)
- 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.
- May 23, 1830, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk
References edit
- “lethargize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.