to etherize
- verb
- /ˈiːθərˌaɪz/
- Archaic
- The doctor decided to etherize the patient before starting the surgery.
- etherized patient
Examples
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We etherized that in April, in Dial DMR for Endless Debate.
Blog text (21) -
Like a patient etherized on a table.
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You don't have to etherize me or nothin'!"
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Around him sprawled the city, senseless, stunned like a patient on a table, etherized by winter.
Fiction book (1998) -
The resultant odor was strong enough to etherize an elephant, but Hershleder the rebel was nose-blind to it.
Fiction book (1995) -
The insidious effect of this approach on historians and others whose job it is to account for human events is to leave them powerless—"like a patient etherized upon a table."
Academic text (1994) -
To perform the operation safely, they had to etherize him completely.
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Before the procedure began, the nurse was instructed to etherize the patient to ensure he felt no pain.
Synonyms
To give someone a substance to make them sleep or act differently
Give someone medicine to make them unconscious before an operation
To give medicine so a person or animal cannot feel pain, often before surgery
Make someone sleep so they do not feel pain during an operation
Give medicine so a person or animal does not feel pain during a medical procedure
How Anesthetized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word etherize comes from ether, the liquid doctors used in the 1800s to put patients to sleep, and the verb ending -ize which means 'to make'. So, to etherize someone is to give them ether to put them to sleep for an operation.