anesthetise
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Definition
- Verb:
- To administer an anesthetic drug to (a person or animal): To make someone or something unconscious or unable to feel pain, especially for a medical procedure, by using drugs or gases.
Usage Examples
- Verb:
- The veterinarian will anesthetise the dog before performing the surgery.
- It is standard practice to anesthetise a patient before a major operation.
Advanced Usage
- "to be anesthetised against something": To be made insensible or immune to a particular feeling or sensation, often used metaphorically.
- After years of bad news, he seemed anesthetised against further disappointment.
Variants and Related Words
- Anesthetize (verb): The preferred spelling in American English. It has the same meaning as 'anesthetise'.
- Anaesthetise (verb): The preferred spelling in British English. It has the same meaning as 'anesthetise'.
- Anesthesia (noun): The state of being unable to feel pain, often induced by drugs.
- Anesthetic (noun): A drug that causes anesthesia.
- Anesthesiologist (noun): A doctor who specializes in administering anesthetics.
Synonyms
- Sedate: To administer a sedative drug to calm or induce sleep.
- Numb: To deprive of feeling or sensation.
- Put under: (Informal) To anesthetise someone.
Related Phrasal Verbs
(This word does not commonly form phrasal verbs.)
Related Idioms
(There are no common idioms directly formed with the word 'anesthetise'.)
Verb
- administer an anesthetic drug to
- The patient must be anesthetized before the operation
- anesthetize the gum before extracting the teeth