[{"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to subject to or treat with a narcotic ;stupefy.", "to make dull; stupefy; deaden the awareness of:He had used liquor to narcotize his anxieties."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to act as a narcotic:a remedy that does not heal but merely narcotizes."]}]