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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of etherize.

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Examples

  • But another person in that operating room was stirring awake: the long-silent, etherized body lying at the far end of the scalpel—the cancer patient.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • But another person in that operating room was stirring awake: the long-silent, etherized body lying at the far end of the scalpel—the cancer patient.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • In an etherized daze, we stumble up, thank our caretaker and falter through halls stinking of sanitized despair.

    Habits Die Hard 2010

  • But another person in that operating room was stirring awake: the long-silent, etherized body lying at the far end of the scalpel—the cancer patient.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • The moral lapses, ethical breaches, and illegal acts by the terrible twosome at least the acts that have been publicly exposed are given the Mathews treatment, which is to say a Cliff Notes version of reality done up in etherized prose.

    KIPP Information Minister Continues to Ignore Abuses and Ethical Meltdown Jim Horn 2009

  • The moral lapses, ethical breaches, and illegal acts by the terrible twosome at least the acts that have been publicly exposed are given the Mathews treatment, which is to say a Cliff Notes version of reality done up in etherized prose.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Jim Horn 2009

  • Machinery of power makes inherent vice confess mistakes once etherized upon the gurneys, when jettisoned by their attorneys and ridiculed by them, and spurned despite the money they have earned, as money-driven as the clients, with whom they'd had their vice alliance.

    Gershon Hepner: inherent Vice 2009

  • Or you could have been really ambiguous and drawn a patient etherized upon a table.

    What was the Question Again? Bardiac 2009

  • I should explain that moths are now generally hunted humanely: gone are the days when they were etherized upon a table or transfixed with pins.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • I should explain that moths are now generally hunted humanely: gone are the days when they were etherized upon a table or transfixed with pins.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

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