Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
anesthetize \anesthetize\ v. 1. 1 to cause to become unconscious by administration of an anaesthetic agent. [Also spelled anaesthetize.]
Syn: put to sleep, put under, put out.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1848, from Greek anaisthetos (see anaesthesia) + -ize. Related: Anaesthetized; anaesthetizing.
Wiktionary
alt. (label en Oxford) (alternative spelling of anesthetize English) vb. (label en Oxford) (alternative spelling of anesthetize English)
WordNet
v. make unconscious by means of anesthetic drugs; "The patient must be anesthetized before the operation" [syn: anesthetize, anesthetise, anaesthetise, put to sleep, put under, put out] [ant: bring to]
Usage examples of "anaesthetize".
We went at once to the vault where the ape lay and where I had concealed the anaesthetized body of Valla Dia.
Possibly she had anaesthetized neither member of the hypothetical brain-pair, but had merely cut, temporarily, their lines of intercommunication, just as one might temporarily disorganize the brain of a laboratory animal by anaesthetizing the pons Varolii linking the two cranial hemispheres.
It was shown to occur not merely in anaesthetized and unanaesthetized rabbits, rats and other laboratory species, but also in in vitro preparations.
All the bright denizens of the deep swam there, tranquil as if anaesthetized - blind, deaf and dumb - as beautiful and as unthinking as the vegetation reaching towards the winking surface.
There was a kind of numbness inside him as if Saigo's cruel intrusion had somehow anaesthetized him, shorting out some spark of current.
In a bare, scraped voice emerging from his face of an anaesthetized frog, he sentenced us to double geography and Pagal‑Zagal, taking us all by surprise, because we hadn't realized that God was permitted to exercise an option, too.
She was deaf to the soft whistle this time, at last anaesthetized to the pain.
Of course, there had been no change of expression possible in that immobilized and anaesthetized embryonic figurenot so much as the twitch of an eyelid!
Of course, there had been no change of expression possible in that immobilized and anaesthetized embryonic figure -- not so much as the twitch of an eyelid!
It's a heady mixture, in which the languid freelance security agent Steffens Aleksandr anaesthetizes himself with kif and dallies with the courtesan Dzunn at the Radiant Love House.
This vial was filled with the Agent's anaesthetizing gas, forced in under pressure.
The anaesthetizing vapor had dissipated sufficiently, so that the air was no longer dangerous.
His struggles ceased as the anaesthetizing drug took effect and he offered little resistance as Rolf ripped open his dirt streaked shirt.
Father has gone to Leeuwarden--he's anaesthetizing at the hospital today.
He had answered: 'Ask our foreign‑returned doctor, ask that nakkoo, that German Aziz,' Was it, then, an attempt to offend the Doctor's hypersensitive nostrils (in which the itch of danger had subsided somewhat under the anaesthetizing ministrations of love)?