How to Use anesthetize in a Sentence

anesthetize

verb
Definition of anesthetizenext
  • The doctor anesthetized the patient by an intravenous injection.
  • She was anesthetized before the operation.
  • So the first step is figuring out a way to anesthetize the eel.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 14 Dec. 2021
  • He was anesthetized, his skull was cut open, and his brain began to move.
    — Dan Rockmore, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The zoo staff decided to run some tests, anesthetizing him with a dart.
    — Lainey Seyler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 June 2018
  • The animal is anesthetized and its blood drawn with a tiny syringe.
    — Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Perhaps anesthetizing us to the violence was part of the point.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 May 2018
  • So Gage takes a live roach, anesthetizes it by dipping it in an ice bath for a few minutes, and snips off one of its legs.
    — Mike Isaac, WIRED, 2 Mar. 2012
  • There are plays that seduce and anesthetize and candy-coat everything to make the world taste good.
    — Jack Helbig, Chicago Reader, 13 June 2018
  • The elephant was anesthetized in order to have a prosthetic made for his cracked tusk.
    — Anna Caplan, ajc, 9 Sep. 2017
  • The crew pumped carbon dioxide into the tree during the nest removal to anesthetize the hornets.
    — Mica Soellner, Washington Examiner, 11 Nov. 2020
  • The skin is first cleaned (in order to prevent infection), and then small ice cubes are held up to the skin for about five to 10 minutes to anesthetize the area, says Ahn.
    — Sarah Kinonen, Allure, 14 Aug. 2021
  • The skin is first cleaned (in order to prevent infection), and then small ice cubes are held up to the skin for about five to 10 minutes to anesthetize the area, says Ahn.
    — Sarah Kinonen, Allure, 17 July 2017
  • But my suppressed side, anesthetized every night by red wine, always woke me at 3 a.m.
    — Chloe Bottero, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Then Sofina was briefly anesthetized to get a blood sample.
    — Karen Weintraub, New York Times, 29 June 2018
  • But he has been anesthetized and does not react to the experts preparing him for his new adventure and, perhaps, the end of an era at the zoo.
    — Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2019
  • Usually when this happens, doctors will anesthetize a patient and cut off the item, trapping the tongue.
    — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 1 Nov. 2019
  • Researchers catch fish and anesthetize them in a special bath before inserting the tag with a tiny syringe.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Sep. 2023
  • But not all of Zhu’s cooking features its spicy heat and anesthetizing effect.
    — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2023
  • When the hornets stopped coming out of the nest, the team pumped carbon dioxide into the tree to kill or anesthetize any remaining hornets.
    — CBS News, 28 Oct. 2020
  • First, the areas of the body to be liposuctioned are marked and filled with tumescent fluid (to anesthetize them and reduce bleeding).
    — Jolene Edgar, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The big moments of tension come from waiting for a bird to lay an egg or figuring out how to anesthetize a gorilla.
    — Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2017
  • Such was the case in an episode in which Selma floated around in lotus land after being anesthetized for minor surgery.
    — Gail Williams, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Yet as Etty understood so well, the temptation to shut it all out, to anesthetize, is ever-present.
    — Elizabeth Svoboda, Longreads, 30 Apr. 2020
  • Peyton and the team anesthetized the bears every ten days or so to switch out the dressings to prevent the tilapia skin from drying out and getting too leathery, Zachos writes.
    — Mika McKinnon, Smithsonian, 24 Jan. 2018
  • Callahan’s colleagues could do to keep them alive: anesthetize them and place them on ventilators.
    — Brendan Borrell, Rolling Stone, 8 Dec. 2021
  • On Thursday, the zebra was anesthetized so that the specialists could perform some followup treatment to its hoof.
    — Johnny Diaz, sun-sentinel.com, 13 Sep. 2019
  • The prison was using a new, unproven drug that some experts said wouldn’t anesthetize an inmate as the painful second and third drugs were administered.
    — Ziva Branstetter, ProPublica, 29 July 2022
  • The team found that infraslow waves traveled through the cortical layers of the awake rodents’ brains—and changed direction when the animals were anesthetized.
    — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 23 May 2018
  • In the new work, Airan and team used a drug called propofol to anesthetize the part of the brain that processes visual information known as the primary visual cortex.
    — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 8 Nov. 2018

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