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- verb To render
unfeeling orunconscious through the use ofnarcotic substances, usually eitheralcohol orpharmaceutical drugs .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb administer an anesthetic drug to
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Examples
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An anaesthetic that was used in Vietnam to sedate wounded troops, ketamine is still used to anaesthetise children.
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The familiar curtains and pictures subtly insist that we shouldn't change because they don't, our well-known rooms can anaesthetise us from a more urgent, necessary relationship with particular questions.
Have Modern Travelers Lost Their Way? Alain de Botton 2011
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The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of the day with some purchased relief.
Russell Brand on Amy Winehouse: 'We have lost a beautiful, talented woman' 2011
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The familiar curtains and pictures subtly insist that we should not change because they do not; our well-known rooms can anaesthetise us from a more urgent, necessary relationship with particular questions.
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Yet wide reading doesn't allow them to recalibrate the way they think about their experience; instead, it serves as a narcotic, potent and addictive, whose cumulative effect is to anaesthetise the rest of the book.
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He had taken days of drugs to control the bacteria in his gut, but nothing it seemed could anaesthetise the cataclysm he saw ahead.
The Elvis Latte Allie Dresser 2010
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It helped anaesthetise your sprained ankle, but made you more than a little melancholy, and you lay awake until long into the night thinking about Kasha.
A Test Of Faith: Julian Gilmour: Reader Scifi Fiction | SciFi UK Review 2008
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It was to anaesthetise the Labour party while he turned it into a vehicle to make him electable and his newly espoused Thatcherism irreversible, much as Attlee had made welfarism irreversible in 1945.
Blair's job was done by 1997: to numb Labour, and to enshrine Thatcherism 2010
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Warm fuzzy feelings win hands down because they anaesthetise reality and blank out altogether those difficult issues which require difficult decisions.
Princess Obama 2008
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Warm fuzzy feelings win hands down because they anaesthetise reality and blank out altogether those difficult issues which require difficult decisions.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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