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anaesthetize

American  
[uh-nes-thi-tahyz, uh-nees-] / əˈnɛs θɪˌtaɪz, əˈnis- /
especially British, anaesthetise

verb (used with object)

anaesthetized, anaesthetizing
  1. anesthetize.


anaesthetize British  
/ əˈniːsθəˌtaɪz /

verb

  1. (tr) to render insensible to pain by administering an anaesthetic

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Vets called the Gorilla Doctors administer antibiotics to treat life-threatening bacterial infections and anaesthetize apes to remove snares.

From Nature Mar. 28, 2017

Without ado the Cardinal bade them anaesthetize him locally.

From Time Magazine Archive

The radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools trying to anaesthetize the way that you feel.

From Time Magazine Archive

It has also made it possible to anaesthetize diabetic patients for operations, and has enabled patients with tubercular complications to eat nourishing foods.

From Time Magazine Archive

He did, however, anaesthetize his mind into the belief that he had found it.

From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 by Marshall, Edison

Rats were anaesthetized with 1–2% isoflurane in oxygen and placed in a stereotaxic apparatus.

From Nature Mar. 28, 2017

Six pigs were infected with Ebola as part of the experiment, and the man was suited up to move an anaesthetized pig to be sampled, Copps said.

From The Guardian Nov. 8, 2016

He said Europe's reaction to the migrant crisis had been blunted by "our indifferent and anaesthetized conscience" and decried unchecked destruction of the environment.

From Reuters Mar. 26, 2016

After a white rhino has been anaesthetized, van Niekerk and his team start the actual treatment by first drilling a hole into both of the rhino’s horns.

From Scientific American May 9, 2013

He was afraid to get up, afraid he might not be able to gain his feet at all, with an anaesthetized leg.

From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury

Another strategy — capturing, anaesthetizing and transporting the hippos by helicopter to a facility to be castrated — would cost at least $530,000 and take up to 52 years for eradication, the study found.

From Scientific American Jun. 6, 2023

For Albee, the truth, even at its most painful, is better than an anaesthetizing lie.

From Los Angeles Times May 2, 2022

Do you guys feel a drive to keep humor from being anaesthetizing?

From The Guardian Nov. 7, 2015

Each theatre was equipped with its own anaesthetizing room, its own surgeon's room, and its own sterilizing rooms and stores, all furnished with a lavishness beyond the financial capacity of any hospital in London.

From A Surgeon in Belgium by Souttar, Henry Sessions

Nevertheless, her anaesthetizing demands perfect steadiness of the lancet.

From More Hunting Wasps by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

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