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anaesthetise

anaesthetise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of anesthetize.

Meaning of anesthetize

Verb

anesthetize (third-person singular simple present anesthetizes, present participle anesthetizing, simple past and past participle anesthetized)

  1. (Canada, US, transitive) To administer anesthesia to: to render unfeeling or unconscious through the use of narcotic substances, usually either alcohol or pharmaceutical drugs.
    • Just prior to surgery the doctor will anesthetize him and he will sleep for four hours.

Forms of anaesthetise

third-person singular presentanaesthetises
present participleanaesthetising
past participleanaesthetised
pastanaesthetised
alternative formanaesthetize

Words formed from anaesthetise

Questions about anaesthetise

What is anaesthetise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Anaesthetise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of anesthetize.

Words near anaesthetise in the dictionary

  1. anaesthetician
  2. anaestheticians
  3. anaesthetics
  4. anaesthetisation
  5. anaesthetisations
  6. anaesthetise
  7. anaesthetised
  8. anaesthetiser
  9. anaesthetisers
  10. anaesthetises
  11. anaesthetising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: anaesthetise (page history and authors); anesthetize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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