Usage examples (29)

• This you must do to anaesthetise yourself against life.
• Warm fuzzy feelings win hands down because they anaesthetise reality and blank out altogether those difficult issues which require difficult decisions.
• It helped anaesthetise your sprained ankle, but made you more than a little melancholy, and you lay awake until long into the night thinking about Kasha.
• Working as a gardener at the University of Cape Town aged 14, he was asked to assist in the new surgical laboratory where he learned to anaesthetise dogs for research...