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It is well-known in Latin America, and some Mennonite farmers on the continent apparently use it to anaesthetise bulls before they are castrated.

From BBC • May 15, 2019

Deacon had been preparing to anaesthetise him, he said, when the man went into cardiac arrest.

From The Guardian • Feb. 9, 2018

The difference, of course, is that Wilde passionately wants us to explore this dark tangle, not anaesthetise it on the high street.

From The Guardian • Oct. 8, 2012

Television is full of bland, anodyne, inoffensive acts, wasting airtime with material so obvious, predictable and boring that it's only purpose, surely, is to anaesthetise us.

From The Guardian • Dec. 19, 2010

The surgeon to do any coeliotomy needs assistant physicians—one to anaesthetise the patient, and at the least one other to work with him in the operation.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin