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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
anaesthetize is a verb meaning "administer an anesthetic drug to". It carries one recorded sense.
administer an anesthetic drug to
“The patient must be anesthetized before the operation”
“anesthetize the gum before extracting the teeth”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for anaesthetize come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.