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etherise

etherise is the alternative spelling of etherize.

Meaning of etherize

Verb

etherize (third-person singular simple present etherizes, present participle etherizing, simple past and past participle etherized)

  1. To convert into ether.
    • etherize a spirit
  2. (historical) To anesthesize by means of ether (diethyl ether), often by inhalation.
    • to etherize a patient

Forms of etherise

third-person singular presentetherises
present participleetherising
past participleetherised
pastetherised

Origin of etherise

From ether + -ise.

Questions about etherise

What is etherise the alternative spelling of?
Etherise is the alternative spelling of etherize.

Words near etherise in the dictionary

  1. Etheringtons
  2. etherion
  3. etherions
  4. etherisation
  5. etherisations
  6. etherise
  7. etherised
  8. etheriser
  9. etherisers
  10. etherises
  11. etherish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: etherise (page history and authors); etherize (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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