etherize
To convert into ether.
Verb
- To convert into ether.
- etherize a spirit
- To anesthesize by means of ether (diethyl ether), often by inhalation.
- to etherize a patient
- Let us go then, you and I, / When the evening is spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherized upon a table; […] - 1915 June, T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, in Prufrock and...
Hypernyms: anesthetize knock out
Origin
From ether + -ize. Compare French éthériser.