anesthetize Syllabification: (an·es·the·tize)Pronunciation: /əˈnesTHiˌtīz/ (British anaesthetize)Translate anesthetize | into French | into Spanish Definition of anesthetize verb [with object] administer an anesthetic to (a person or animal), especially so as to induce a loss of consciousness. deprive of feeling or awareness:tragedy of a magnitude that anesthetizes the mindDerivatives anesthetizationPronunciation: /-THitəˈzāSHən/ noun anesthetize in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of anesthetize in the British & World English dictionary