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lethargize

verb · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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verb

Meaning 1

To make lethargic.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 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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History

Etymology

From lethargy + -ize.