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etherize

/ˈiːθəɹaɪz/

etherize verb: to convert into ether.

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
    • Let us go then, you and I, / When the evening is spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherized upon a table; […]1915 June, T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, in Prufrock and Other Observations, London: The Egoist […], published 1917, →OCLC, page 9

etherize meaning in Bengali

etherize in Bengali

ইথারে রূপান্তর করা, ইথারের সাহায্যে অচেতন করা, প্রায়শই নিঃশ্বাসের মাধ্যমে

Forms of etherize

third-person singular presentetherizes
present participleetherizing
past participleetherized
pastetherized

Origin of etherize

From ether + -ize. Compare French éthériser.

Words formed from etherize

Questions about etherize

What does etherize mean?
Etherize means to convert into ether.
What is etherize in Bengali?
Etherize in Bengali is ইথারে রূপান্তর করা, ইথারের সাহায্যে অচেতন করা, প্রায়শই নিঃশ্বাসের মাধ্যমে. See Etherize meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is etherize?
Etherize is a verb.
How do you pronounce etherize?
Etherize is pronounced /ˈiːθəɹaɪz/.
What is the past tense of etherize?
The past tense of etherize is etherized.

Words near etherize in the dictionary

  1. etherism
  2. etherist
  3. etherists
  4. etherization
  5. etherizations
  6. etherize
  7. etherized
  8. etherizer
  9. etherizers
  10. etherizes
  11. etherizing

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