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etherize - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To subject to the fumes of ether; anesthetize.
- transitive verb To etherify.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To convert into the chemical substance ether.
- To subject to the influence of ether: as, to
etherize a patient. - Also spelled
etherise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To convert into ether.
- transitive verb To render insensible by means of ether, as by inhalation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
convert intoether . - verb To render
insensible by means of ether, as byinhalation .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb anesthetize with ether
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
ether + -ize. Compare French éthériser.
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Examples
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What am I saying? to etherize him, as here ether takes the place of earth.
Round the Moon 2003
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I guess it was the strugglin 'that confused my mind, and I been wondering why I could etherize a lot of struggling young poets.
Drusilla with a Million Elizabeth Cooper 1911
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I got kind of mixed up -- I could think of nothin 'but etherize.
Drusilla with a Million Elizabeth Cooper 1911
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Therefore they etherize and dissect down for the purpose of exploring, to ascertain if the guess is right or wrong.
Related Words
synonyms (56)
Words with the same meaning
- KO
- aerate
- aerify
- anesthetize
- atomize
- bedaze
- benumb
- besot
- blunt
- carbonate
- chlorinate
- chloroform
- coldcock
- deaden
- desensitize
- distill
- dope
- drug
- dull
- emit
- etherify
- evaporate
- exhale
- fluidize
- fractionate
- freeze
- fume
- fumigate
- gasify
- give off
- hydrogenate
- kayo
- knock out
- knock senseless
- knock stiff
- knock unconscious
- lay out
- narcotize
- numb
- obtund
- oxygenate
- palsy
- paralyze
- perfume
- put to sleep
- reek
- send out
- smoke
- spray
- steam
- stun
- stupefy
- sublimate
- sublime
- vaporize
- volatilize
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