anesthetize

Other forms of anesthetize

past tense

anesthetized·

present participle

anesthetizing·

third person

anesthetizes·

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.

Questions about anesthetize

What does anesthetize mean?

anesthetize means "administer an anesthetic drug to".

How many syllables are in anesthetize?

anesthetize has 4 syllables and divides as a-nes-the-tize under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for anesthetize?

Close synonyms include anaesthetize, anesthetise, anaesthetise, put under, put out. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of anesthetize?

The recorded antonyms are bring to.

Is anesthetize a common word?

anesthetize is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.