anaesthetizev.
To render insensible.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > anaesthetization, pain-killing, etc. > practise anaesthetization, pain-killing, etc. [verb (transitive)] > anaesthetize
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1848 Sir J. Simpson in Jrnl. Med. Sc. IX. 216 The patients were thus only partially..anæsthetized.
1871 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 25 Gratuitous hearers are anæsthetized to suffering by a sense of virtue.
1872 T. G. Thomas Pract. Treat. Dis. Women 141 The doctor anæsthetizes his patient.
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