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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To poison with curare.
  • transitive verb To treat with curare so as to relax the skeletal muscles.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To administer curari to; destroy the motor without destroying the sensory function of the nervous system by the use of curari, as in vivisection, when the animal is rendered motionless and voiceless, but not insensible to pain.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To poison with curare.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To poison with curare.

Etymologies

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curare +‎ -ize

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