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anesthetized

  • past participle
    of anesthetize.
    anesthetize
    verb (used with object)
    to render physically insensible, as by an anesthetic.
  • past tense form
    of anesthetize.
    anesthetize
    verb (used with object)
    to render physically insensible, as by an anesthetic.

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“The brain didn’t evolve to be anesthetized, so we want to understand how the brain comes back from it.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026

Bogdan fears that by cleaning up Meridian Hill Park -- which is managed and maintained by the National Park Service -- its history as a place of Black protest and community will be anesthetized.

From Barron's ● May 19, 2026

Those latter respondents have presumably been anesthetized, never set foot in the real world or live in a permanent, chemically induced stupor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2025

For a more definitive proof, Xue worked with Josiah Boivin in the Nedivi lab to image neurons in the brain of a live, anesthetized mouse, using mosTF.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2024

I felt emotionally anesthetized yet hyperaware, as if I had fled into a bunker deep inside my skull and was peering out at the wreckage around me through a narrow, armored slit.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer