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etherize

[ee-thuh-rahyz] / ˈi θəˌraɪz /


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Dr. Morgan had had to etherize the insects and go over them with a magnifying glass to verify the mutation.

From Time Magazine Archive

I'm afraid I got kind of mixed up—I could think of nothin' but etherize.

From Drusilla with a Million by Cooper, Elizabeth

"No, he is going to etherize a drop of water."

From The Crack of Doom by Cromie, Robert

I guess it was the strugglin' that confused my mind, and I been wondering why I could etherize a lot of struggling young poets.

From Drusilla with a Million by Cooper, Elizabeth

What am I saying? to etherize him, as here ether takes the place of earth.

From From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon by Verne, Jules

Her boyfriend, a grade older, is “laid out on a bed, like a patient etherized upon a table.”

From New York Times Oct. 12, 2021

Eliot’s poem, Jade’s town lies like a patient etherized upon a table, awaiting gentrification, or worse.

From Slate Aug. 30, 2021

The patient, a woman in her twenties, lay etherized upon a table.

From The New Yorker Sep. 23, 2019

Eliot’s “Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” which of course begins, “Shall we go then, you and I, while the evening is spread out across the sky like a patient etherized upon a table.”

From Salon Jul. 3, 2015

Neither had he been strangled, etherized, drowned, or bludgeoned, for the brain was in no way injured and the lungs were in a healthy condition.

From Cleek of Scotland Yard Detective Stories by Hanshew, Thomas W.

It hit him in their bedroom on a summer day in 2016: an unfamiliar, etherizing wave.

From Washington Post Dec. 18, 2018

This is the McKee-McCready modification of the Boyce thimble with the omission of the etherizing tube, which is no longer needed.

From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Jackson, Chevalier

When a police surgeon hit on the idea of etherizing an obdurate "dummy chucker," to determine if the prisoner could talk or not, Blake appropriated the suggestion as his own.

From Never-Fail Blake by Stringer, Arthur




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