You can overdose on coffee if you drink about 30 cups in a brief period to get close to a lethal dosage of caffeine.
ANAESTHETIZE
anesthetize, anaesthetize, anesthetise, anaesthetise, put under, put out
(verb) administer an anesthetic drug to; “The patient must be anesthetized before the operation”; “anesthetize the gum before extracting the teeth”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
anaesthetize (third-person singular simple present anaesthetizes, present participle anaesthetizing, simple past and past participle anaesthetized)
(Oxford) Alternative spelling of anesthetize
Source: Wiktionary
An*æs"the*tize, v. t. (Med.)
Definition: To render insensible by an anæsthetic. Encyc. Brit.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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HEMLOCK
(noun) poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium; “Socrates refused to flee and died by drinking hemlock”
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