etherize

English

Etymology

ether +‎ -ize. Compare French éthériser.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈiːθəɹaɪz/

Verb

etherize (third-person singular simple present etherizes, present participle etherizing, simple past and past participle etherized)

To convert into ether.
To render insensible by means of ether, as by inhalation.
to etherize a patient

Hypernyms: anesthetize, (colloquial) knock out
- 1915, T. S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, in Prufrock and Other Observations, published 1917:
  When the evening is spread out against the sky
  Like a patient etherized upon a table;

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “etherize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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