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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of anesthetize.

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Examples

  • This invasion of one’s mind by ready-made phrases (lay the foundations, achieve a radical transformation) can only be prevented if one is constantly on guard against them, and every such phrase anesthetizes a portion of one’s brain.

    Politics and the English Language 1946

  • This invasion of one's mind by ready-made phrases (lay the foundations, achieve a radical transformation) can only be prevented one is constantly on guard against them, and every such phrase anesthetizes a portion of one's brain.

    Conversation Agent 2008

  • (LAY THE FOUNDATIONS, ACHIEVE A RADICAL TRANSFORMATION) can only be prevented if one is constantly on guard against them, and every such phrase anesthetizes a portion of one’s brain.

    Collected Essays 1900

  • "Whether or not an execution is humane turns entirely on whether thiopental deeply anesthetizes the inmate," said Megan McCracken, an attorney with the Death Penalty Clinic at the University of California Berkeley School of Law.

    Plea for Execution Drug Nathan Koppel 2010

  • They're the product of an indulgent form of self-mythologizing that interferes with analytical thinking and anesthetizes the human conscience.

    Richard (RJ) Eskow: As the Aging Stoop to Their Labors, Prosperous Pundits Lecture Them About Sacrifice 2010

  • Maybe everyone (including soldiers) are on Welbutrin or some other SSI Reuptake Inhibitor or whatever it is that anesthetizes anxiety ... and makes everything, including torture, stupidity, and illegal invasions, just kind of mellow, good feeling experiences.

    Stop Complaining about Right-Wing Protests! The Left Should be (Re)Learning How It��s Done 2009

  • No matter how I pound you, no matter how my sharp knuckles rend your flesh, your ego keeps your hate alive, which anesthetizes you.

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

  • No matter how I pound you, no matter how my sharp knuckles rend your flesh, your ego keeps your hate alive, which anesthetizes you.

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

  • I won't deny that sometimes my feet hurt after a day of speed-walking around; but frankly, the way I feel in high heels anesthetizes the pain.

    Tess Ghilaga: Sole to Soul 2009

  • Maybe everyone (including soldiers) are on Welbutrin or some other SSI Reuptake Inhibitor or whatever it is that anesthetizes anxiety ... and makes everything, including torture, stupidity, and illegal invasions, just kind of mellow, good feeling experiences.

    Stop Complaining about Right-Wing Protests! The Left Should be (Re)Learning How It��s Done 2009

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