anesthetize

Kids are naturally inquisitive, but modern schooling is too often designed to anesthetize curiosity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Zoo officials said the tragedy shows why decisions to anesthetize animals are not taken lightly.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 30, 2023

The researchers anesthetize the captured cats, give them a quick physical exam and fit them with GPS collars to track their movements.

From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2023

They’d dipped the animals in magnesium chloride to anesthetize them, a common lab procedure.

From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2022

In fact, the vapors of chloroform, which anesthetize plants, also prevent nitrification, since they anaesthetize the nitric ferment.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 by Various

That’s not easy, since capybaras max out around 155 pounds; sometimes he anesthetizes them for the trip back to the river.

From Slate ● May 27, 2026

After several visits, Marx underwent a TAP block, an injection that anesthetizes the anterior abdominal wall.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 19, 2021

She anesthetizes the animals, carefully removes their brains, firms the brains up with formalin, freezes them, then shaves them into slices thinner than a strand of human hair to study under a microscope.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 16, 2013

Cyclopropane, a new gas, is most respected because a trifle of it quickly anesthetizes the patient and causes no bad aftereffects.

From Time Magazine Archive

Your wife has leprosy!—not the physical form, but the kind that anesthetizes, ulcerates, deforms the soul—the leprosy of self-pity.

From Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness by Robert S. Carroll

This does not necessarily mean that the anesthetized patients consciously understood the stories being played to them.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

In the veterinary emergency room, Samba was anesthetized, and the medical staff was then able to draw her blood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

“The brain didn’t evolve to be anesthetized, so we want to understand how the brain comes back from it.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026

Bogdan fears that by cleaning up Meridian Hill Park -- which is managed and maintained by the National Park Service -- its history as a place of Black protest and community will be anesthetized.

From Barron's ● May 19, 2026

Their own Jewish religion, their own rich Jewish ethnic and cultural roots, they anesthetized, and cut off. . . until they began thinking of themselves as ‘ ‘Germans.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

These are meant to be the anesthetizing accompaniment to playlists featuring purveyors of sonic wallpaper made to help your whole body chill out — a vibe-fest, on demand.

From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2025

Sampling wild primates traditionally requires trapping and anesthetizing the animals.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 5, 2023

The collective was founded by the composer-poet-pianist-conductor-essayist and former Los Angeles Opera artist in residence Matthew Aucoin and director Zack Winokur in 2017 as an occasional refuge from the artistically anesthetizing commercial classical music business.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2022

What the film does not anticipate is that, while collectively bearing witness to the deaths of half a million Americans and counting, we would also experience the pandemic through a series of anesthetizing diversions.

From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2021

A clogging lassitude had descended upon her, the reaction of cumulative nervous stress, anesthetizing her will, her desires, her very limbs.

From Success A Novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams