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overanesthetize en · VERB

Etymology

From over- + anesthetize.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To give too much anesthetic to.
    • While undergoing a tonsillectomy, young Lionel — called Leibel or Leibele by his family — was badly overanesthetized. 2009 March 21, William Grimes, “Lionel Ziprin, Mystic of the Lower East Side, Dies at 84”, in New York Times:

Forms

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overanesthetized Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
overanesthetized Tense=Past lexicographic
overanesthetizes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
overanaesthetize alternative lexicographic
overanesthetizing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic