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anesthetise

anesthetise is the alternative form 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 anesthetise

third-person singular presentanesthetises
present participleanesthetising
past participleanesthetised
pastanesthetised

Words formed from anesthetise

Questions about anesthetise

What is anesthetise the alternative form of?
Anesthetise is the alternative form of anesthetize.

Words near anesthetise in the dictionary

  1. anesthetical
  2. anesthetically
  3. anesthetics
  4. anesthetisation
  5. anesthetisations
  6. anesthetise
  7. anesthetised
  8. anesthetises
  9. anesthetising
  10. anesthetist
  11. anesthetists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: anesthetise (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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