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Etherize

Etherize \E"ther*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Etherized; p. pr. & vb. n. Etherizing.] [Cf. F. ['e]th['e]riser.]

  1. To convert into ether.

  2. To render insensible by means of ether, as by inhalation; as, to etherize a patient.

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etherize

vb. 1 To convert into ether. 2 To render insensible by means of ether, as by inhalation.

WordNet
etherize

v. anesthetize with ether [syn: etherise]

Usage examples of "etherize".

The absolutist nature of the American Creed, with its ideological faith in Democracy and Freedom, tends to produce etherized, contentless versions of both these concepts.

For the first time he could see the whole fleet, spread out across the sky like a patient etherized on a table.

He thinks of the two of us as some rare and unwholesome species of butterfly, to be etherized and pinned to a card.

They were usually etherized at the top of the staircase on a little chair outside the operĀ­ating theater, as there was no room existing for this purpose at the time.