Meaning & use
Etherized
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Anesthetized with ether, or rendered numb, still, and unresponsive as though under such anesthesia.
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The old surgical photographs showed a patient etherized on the operating table.
T. S. Eliot famously compared the evening sky to 'a patient etherized upon a table.'
A note on using this word
Now largely a literary and historical word, since ether has been replaced by modern anesthetics in medicine.
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