put under

1. 1.

   administer an anesthetic drug to

   “The patient must be anesthetized before the operation”

   “anesthetize the gum before extracting the teeth”

   Synonymsanesthetizeanaesthetizeanesthetiseanaesthetiseput out

   Broaderdrug

   Narroweretherizecocainizechloroformfreezeblock

Questions about put under

What does put under mean?

put under means "administer an anesthetic drug to".

What is another word for put under?

Close synonyms include anesthetize, anaesthetize, anesthetise, anaesthetise, 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.

Is put under a common word?

put under 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.