insensate
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She is under general anaesthesia: unconscious, insensate and rendered completely still by a blend of drugs that induce deep sleep, block memory, blunt pain and temporarily paralyse her muscles.
From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2025
Perkins gives the line a perfect comic spin, but our eyes are on Annie’s own insensate labor saver.
From New York Times ● May 24, 2023
Supreme Court, have maintained that the use of midazolam as the first in a three-drug protocol is likely to render an inmate insensate to pain.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2022
But this weekend has illustrated both the long and short-term threat of this insensate attitude.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2021
It would appear that, a day before the moment of demise, the subject was blind, and sufficiently fevered as to be insensate.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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