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
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Etymology
Origin of etherize
Vocabulary lists containing etherize
Elements of the Universe: Aether ("Sky")
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"The Love Song J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot
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Selection Vocabulary 1, Unit 5
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Dr. Morgan had had to etherize the insects and go over them with a magnifying glass to verify the mutation.
From Time Magazine Archive
Therefore they etherize and dissect down for the purpose of exploring, to ascertain if the guess is right or wrong.
From Philosophy of Osteopathy by Still, A. T. (Andrew Taylor)
"No, he is going to etherize a drop of water."
From The Crack of Doom by Cromie, Robert
I guess it was the strugglin' that confused my mind, and I been wondering why I could etherize a lot of struggling young poets.
From Drusilla with a Million by Cooper, Elizabeth
What am I saying? to etherize him, as here ether takes the place of earth.
From From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon by Verne, Jules
Her boyfriend, a grade older, is “laid out on a bed, like a patient etherized upon a table.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2021
Eliot’s poem, Jade’s town lies like a patient etherized upon a table, awaiting gentrification, or worse.
From Slate ● Aug. 30, 2021
The patient, a woman in her twenties, lay etherized upon a table.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 23, 2019
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 ● Jul. 3, 2015
Under ordinary conditions he would have been etherized in an adjoining chamber and brought into the operating-room entirely unconscious.
From How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers by Bleyer, Willard Grosvenor
It hit him in their bedroom on a summer day in 2016: an unfamiliar, etherizing wave.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 18, 2018
When a police surgeon hit on the idea of etherizing an obdurate "dummy chucker," to determine if the prisoner could talk or not, Blake appropriated the suggestion as his own.
From Never-Fail Blake by Stringer, Arthur
This is the McKee-McCready modification of the Boyce thimble with the omission of the etherizing tube, which is no longer needed.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Jackson, Chevalier
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