To induce insensibility or loss of function in (a body or limb); to benumb, deaden.

To deprive of sensation, as by a blow; to stun, paralyse, deaden, stupefy. Obsolete.

transitive. To stun; to strike senseless with a blow, or partially senseless with a loud noise; to paralyse a limb with anæsthetics; to paralyse…

transitive. To stun as with a blow; to stupefy, benumb; to stupefy with astonishment, bewilder.

transitive. To anaesthetize (a person) with ether (now rare); to anaesthetize or euthanize (an animal) with ether.

(transitive) to subject to the action of letheon.

To render insensible.

To render insensible.

transitive. To administer chloroform to; to render insensible by means of chloroform; to apply chloroform to (a thing), soak with chloroform.

to bring under the influence of chloral.

= chloroform, v.

transitive. To render unconscious, as by the use of an anaesthetic; (also) to hypnotize.