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Anesthetize

verb
1.
Administer an anesthetic drug to.  Synonyms: anaesthetise, anaesthetize, anesthetise, put out, put under.  "Anesthetize the gum before extracting the teeth"






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"Anesthetize" Quotes from Famous Books



... you could do that, it would stop you. It's only made one mistake, Mr. Whitney: it believes the noises of the city represent a danger. And that's only a negative mistake. Noise won't hurt Black Eyes, of course. It simply makes the animal unnecessarily cautious. But we cannot anesthetize it any more than we ...
— Black Eyes and the Daily Grind • Milton Lesser

... anesthetize a Kalinga became promptly and widely known as "the man who kills people and brings them to life again," and the individual on whom he operated successfully, who chanced to be the most influential chief of the tribe, became his friend for life. ...
— The Philippines: Past and Present (vol. 1 of 2) • Dean C. Worcester

... intensity of the original love, it may never give full or even half-full satisfaction; but it will help to dull the sharp cutting edge, it will act as a partial hemostatic to the bleeding heart, it will soothe and anesthetize the wound even if it cannot completely heal it. And this is a valuable aid while the sufferer is coming to himself or herself, while the gathered fragments of a broken life are being cemented and while the cement is hardening. Yes, ...
— Woman - Her Sex and Love Life • William J. Robinson



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