Anesthetize vs Narcotize - What's the difference?
anesthetize | narcotize |
To administer anesthesia to: to render unfeeling or unconscious through the use of narcotic substances, usually either alcohol or pharmaceutical drugs.
To use a narcotic in order to make (someone) drowsy or insensible; to anesthetize, to drug.
To dull the senses of (a person, place etc.).
To make into a narcotic.
*1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 235:
*:The sun hangs overhead like a lantern, the essence of new grass and apple blossom narcotizes the air, the clack and whir of the wheels have a quelling, hypnotic effect on the passengers.
As verbs the difference between anesthetize and narcotize
is that anesthetize is to administer anesthesia to: to render unfeeling or unconscious through the use of narcotic substances, usually either alcohol or pharmaceutical drugs while narcotize is to use a narcotic in order to make (someone) drowsy or insensible; to anesthetize, to drug.anesthetize
English
Alternative forms
* * anaesthetise (non-Oxford British spelling) * (archaic spelling) * anesthetise (nonstandard non-Oxford British spelling)Verb
- Just prior to surgery the doctor will anesthetize him and he will sleep for four hours.