anaesthetize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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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
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
Without ado the Cardinal bade them anaesthetize him locally.
From Time Magazine Archive
I'm sorry we'll have to anaesthetize you, but you've been in one position so long that moving you will be rather painful.
From The Penal Cluster by Randall Garrett
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
The anaesthetized area was clearly defined by the patient and after a time the doctor’s fragile delicacy was exhausted and he said it would be better to have an X-ray.
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
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
It is probably nature's way of anaesthetizing him from the pain of unlimited drabness.
From Stubble by George Looms
Character is built up by standing the difficult things of life without looking for the narcotic of sympathy or any other anaesthetizing material.
From Health Through Will Power by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
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