lethargize

== English == === Etymology === From lethargy +‎ -ize. === Verb === 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. === References === “lethargize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.