v. [f. Gr. ἀναίσθητ-ος (see ANÆSTHETIC) + -IZE.] To render insensible.
1848. Sir J. Simpson, in Jrnl. Med. Sc., IX. 216. The patients were thus only partially anæsthetized.
1870. Lowell, Study Wind. (1871), 24–5. Gratuitous hearers are anæsthetized to suffering by a sense of virtue.
1872. T. G. Thomas, Dis. Women, 141. The doctor anæsthetizes his patient.
