Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To induce anesthesia in.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To bring under the influence of an anesthetic agent, as chloroform, a freezing-mixture, etc.; render insensible, especially to pain. Also spelled
anesthetise and anæsthetise.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb to cause to become unconscious by administration of an anaesthetic agent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To administer
anesthesia to.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb administer an anesthetic drug to
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Examples
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She used to be a size 6 or 8 and now she's a size 2, no longer using food to "anesthetize" herself.
Socialite Life Madison Ventura 2010
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The next step takes you farther into the wine, the love that will anesthetize the influence of trickster mind.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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Showering in mostly cold water to anesthetize his senses, Stefàn, nevertheless, felt a rising warmth just by thinking of her.
Who Said It Would Be Easy Cheryl Faye 2011
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We mentally anesthetize to keep from letting anger consume us entirely.
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Showering in mostly cold water to anesthetize his senses, Stefàn, nevertheless, felt a rising warmth just by thinking of her.
Who Said It Would Be Easy Cheryl Faye 2011
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Unlike most talented economists who love to anesthetize the reader with complicated formulas based on obscure logic and theories, Professors Navarro and Autry specifically illuminate how the Chinese bureaucracy systematically targets industries supporting middle class wages in America for conquest and transfer to China.
Chriss Street: Book Review: Death by China: Confronting the Dragon Chriss Street 2011
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And people looking to anesthetize themselves are experts at finding accomplices to orchestrate a conspiracy of denial.
The 7 Glenn Beck 2011
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We mentally anesthetize to keep from letting anger consume us entirely.
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As her friend, British actor Russell Brand, observed in a tribute on his website: "The priority of any addict is to anesthetize the pain of living to ease the passage of the day with some purchased relief."
Amy Winehouse's Killers Sally Satel 2011
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Unlike most talented economists who love to anesthetize the reader with complicated formulas based on obscure logic and theories, Professors Navarro and Autry specifically illuminate how the Chinese bureaucracy systematically targets industries supporting middle class wages in America for conquest and transfer to China.
Chriss Street: Book Review: Death by China: Confronting the Dragon Chriss Street 2011
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