American English spelling: to treat with cocaine, administer cocaine to, or to become addicted to cocaine.
From 'cocaine' plus American English verb-forming suffix '-ize'. This follows the same pattern as 'hospitalize,' 'legalize,' and other American verbs.
The verb 'cocainize' appears in fascinating historical medical journals describing 'cocainized wounds' and 'cocainized eyes'—it normalized a dangerous drug through clinical language, a linguistic pattern that still affects how we discuss drugs today!
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