etherize
Americanverb (used with object)
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Medicine/Medical. to put under the influence of ether; anesthetize.
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to render groggy or numb, as if by an anesthetic.
verb
Other Word Forms
- etherization noun
- etherizer noun
Etymology
Origin of etherize
Example Sentences
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Her boyfriend, a grade older, is “laid out on a bed, like a patient etherized upon a table.”
From New York Times
The pleasure this writing affords — its plushness, patient description, etherizing beauty — does not stem from its closeness to life, however.
From New York Times
The patient, a woman in her twenties, lay etherized upon a table.
From The New Yorker
It hit him in their bedroom on a summer day in 2016: an unfamiliar, etherizing wave.
From Washington Post
Eliot’s “Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” which of course begins, “Shall we go then, you and I, while the evening is spread out across the sky like a patient etherized upon a table.”
From Salon
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