anesthetize

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

One way people deal with these costs is to anesthetize themselves to reality.

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2023

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

From Washington Times ● Aug. 30, 2023

Dr. Angel Estrada, right, a veterinarian, and Brenda Arias, a veterinary student, anesthetize a horse undergoing surgery at a clinic in the community of Charco de Sierra in Guanajuato, Mexico.Credit...

From New York Times ● May 9, 2023

Two applications are usually sufficient completely to anesthetize the exterior and interior of the larynx by blocking of the superior laryngeal nerve without any endolaryngeal applications.

From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson

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

But within four or five days the venom seeps through his system and anesthetizes pain areas of his higher nerve centres.

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

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

"Even when patients are fully anesthetized, their brains continue to analyze the world around them."

From Science Daily ● Jun. 29, 2026

The anesthetized patients’ brains produced activity that shared similarities to being unconscious in a coma—as well as deep sleep, REM sleep and patterns unique to anesthesia.

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

The next day, the video shows care staff anesthetizing Jackie for the blood transfusion and notes she was stronger and more alert the next day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

A team of expert divers guided each of the boys out of the cave on special stretchers after anesthetizing them to keep them calm enough to transport.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2023

Sampling wild primates traditionally requires trapping and anesthetizing the animals.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 5, 2023

Lying in the ocean of anesthetizing dentist-office whirs, I didn’t know how I would ever get up from the chair.

From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2022

At its head stood a squat metal cylinder sprouting a long flexible tube which ended in a cone—no doubt the anesthetizing apparatus.

From The Affair of the Brains by Anthony Gilmore