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Anesthetizer vs Anesthetize - What's the difference?

anesthetizer | anesthetize |

As a noun anesthetizer

is (dated) a person that administers anesthesia.

As a verb anesthetize is

to administer anesthesia to: to render unfeeling or unconscious through the use of narcotic substances, usually either alcohol or pharmaceutical drugs.

anesthetizer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (dated) A person that administers anesthesia
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=Grace S. Richmond, title=Mrs. Red Pepper, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Buller's the best anesthetizer in the state and a splendid fellow besides. }}
  • A device with an anesthetic effect
  • * {{quote-news, year=1991, date=May 17, author=Anthony Adler, title=Tabloid Truth, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=Aunt Ruth has an "electronic anesthetizer " that controls her chronic back pain but also activates the garage door. }} English agent nouns

    anesthetize

    English

    Alternative forms

    * * anaesthetise (non-Oxford British spelling) * (archaic spelling) * anesthetise (nonstandard non-Oxford British spelling)

    Verb

  • To administer anesthesia to: to render unfeeling or unconscious through the use of narcotic substances, usually either alcohol or pharmaceutical drugs.
    • Just prior to surgery the doctor will anesthetize him and he will sleep for four hours.