Word forms: 3rd person singular presenttense anaesthetizes, present participle anaesthetizing, past tense, past participle anaesthetizedlanguage note: The spellings anesthetize in American English, and anaesthetise in British English are also used.
1. verb
When a doctor or other trained person anaesthetizes a patient, they make the patient unconscious or unable to feel pain by giving them an anaesthetic.
2. verb
If something such as a drug anaesthetizes part or all of your body, it makes you unable to feel anything in that part of yourbody.
When people are in shock they feel no pain because the body is naturally anaesthetized. [VERB noun]
anaesthetize in British English
or anaesthetise or US anesthetize (əˈniːsθəˌtaɪz)
verb
(transitive)
to render insensible to pain by administering an anaesthetic
Derived forms
anaesthetization (aˌnaesthetiˈzation) or anaesthetisation (aˌnaesthetiˈsation) or US anesthetization (aˌnesthetiˈzation)