Usually means: Substance that numbs or sedates.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. anesthetic: Merriam-Webster
  2. anesthetic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. anesthetic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. anesthetic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. anesthetic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Anesthetic, anesthetic: Wordnik
  7. anesthetic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. anesthetic: Wiktionary
  9. anesthetic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. anesthetic (anaesthetic): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. anesthetic: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. anesthetic: Dictionary.com
  13. anesthetic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Anesthetic (album), Anesthetic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Anesthetic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. anesthetic: Rhymezone
  17. anesthetic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. anesthetic: FreeDictionary.org
  19. anesthetic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. anesthetic: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. anesthetic: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  22. anesthetic: Merriam-Webster

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Anesthetic: Glossary of Health Care Terms
  2. anesthetic: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. anesthetic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. anesthetic: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Anesthetic: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Lay Terms for Consent Forms (No longer online)
  5. Hair Facts (No longer online)
  6. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  7. anesthetic: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  8. anesthetic: Medical dictionary
  9. Anesthetic: Drug Medical Dictionary
  10. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)
  11. Orthodontic Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Anesthetic: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See anesthetically as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Causing anesthesia; reducing pain sensitivity.
adjective:  Insensate: unable to feel, or unconscious.
noun:  (American spelling, medicine) A substance administered to reduce the perception of pain or to induce numbness for surgery and may render the recipient unconscious.

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