Usually means: Make insensitive to pain temporarily.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word anesthetize:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. anesthetize: Merriam-Webster
  2. anesthetize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. anesthetize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. anesthetize: Collins English Dictionary
  5. anesthetize: Vocabulary.com
  6. anesthetize: Wordnik
  7. anesthetize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. anesthetize: Wiktionary
  9. anesthetize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. anesthetize (anaesthetize): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. anesthetize: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. anesthetize: Dictionary.com
  13. anesthetize: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Anesthetize (DVD), Anesthetize (Porcupine Tree), Anesthetize (video), Anesthetize: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. anesthetize: Rhymezone
  16. anesthetize: FreeDictionary.org
  17. anesthetize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. anesthetize: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. anesthetize: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  20. anesthetize: Merriam-Webster

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. anesthetize: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. anesthetize: Medical dictionary

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▸ verb:  (transitive) To administer anesthesia to: to render unfeeling or unconscious through the use of narcotic substances, usually either alcohol or pharmaceutical drugs.

Similar:
anaesthetize, put to sleep, put under, put out, anesthetise, anesthesize, anaesthetise, put someone under, narcotize, benumb, more...

Opposite:
awaken, stimulate, revive, rouse, invigorate

Types:
local, general, topical, epidural, spinal, intravenous, intramuscular, intra-articular, more...



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Similar:
anaesthetize, put to sleep, put under, put out, anesthetise, anesthesize, anaesthetise, put someone under, narcotize, benumb, more...

Opposite:
awaken, stimulate, revive, rouse, invigorate

Types:
local, general, topical, epidural, spinal, intravenous, intramuscular, intra-articular, more...



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