He did, however, anaesthetize his mind into the belief that he had found it.    From Wordnik.com.  [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921] Reference

There are people in the world who haven ` t, who still need to anaesthetize themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 7, 2007] Reference

DArby allowed himself a final nightcap, in celebration and also in order to anaesthetize himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Edge of Madness] Reference

He described the documentary as a "piece of Kremlin agitprop" designed to "anaesthetize the masses".    From Wordnik.com.  [Russian television program on the fall of the Byzantine Empire] Reference

In fact, the vapors of chloroform, which anesthetize plants, also prevent nitrification, since they anaesthetize the nitric ferment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884] Reference

Even when the pundit has something of consequence to say, those six words anaesthetize the listener, encouraging them to miss the point.    From Wordnik.com.  [Irritating English « Anglican Samizdat] Reference

For the cooling process I used ethyl chloride, the fluid often used in surgery to anaesthetize parts of the skin when small operations are to be carried out here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Bárány - Nobel Lecture] Reference

But it would be wrong to blame everything on the scribes, those unreflective, unthinking mouthpieces of the status quo whose job it is to anaesthetize the public.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference

But from the tone of the discussion so far, the candidates must think that to perform major surgery on this moribund patient, first we have to anaesthetize the voters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tim Frasca: Surgery, Please - A Look At Edwards On Health Care] Reference

We are treated to many great lies, such as “the market never lies,” or “insider trading is illegal,” meant to administer salve to the flock, or anaesthetize the unsuspecting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Madoff Really A Wall Street Anomaly?] Reference

We have come many steps closer to what Elmer Diktonius put into words in one of his aphorisms: “If the purpose of art were to anaesthetize, to make us forget life, then a hammer-blow to the skull would be the simplest art, and the best” – though perhaps not quite in the way that Diktonius meant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-10-01] Reference

So let's lift a glass -- shot glass to really anaesthetize ourselves -- and salute our collective craziness: that in the face of high taxes, rising MTA fares, the impossible Byzantine task of getting our kid into school, we get to have the most fun living and raising our kids here; that by raising our kids here, their education is not only in school.    From Wordnik.com.  [Donna Fish: It's June: Do You Know Where Your Kid Is? Going to School, I Mean?] Reference

(Researchers have the advantage of being able to anaesthetize their animals.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Film Junk] Reference

I think that it may have been a poisonous exhalation that was intended to anaesthetize its victims.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lost on Venus]

Obama can do is to alleviate / lessen / anaesthetize the pain: he cannot "skip" this part of the cycle.    From Wordnik.com.  [pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator] Reference

His point was that oft-repeated words and phrases can "invade" our minds and "anaesthetize" our brains.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Farm Bureau: Latest News] Reference

Other friends will tell you, doctors opened a persons leg with an instrument like screwdriwer without anaesthetize .. arent you doctors?.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to The old Gaza boy and the sea] Reference

She was placed under anaesthetize which kept her from shivering while her body temperature was brought down to 81 degrees fahrenheit by a special blanket.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

She was placed under anaesthetize which kept her from shivering and then her body temperature was brought down to 81 degrees fahrenheit by a special blanket.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

He never solved the paradox of the power of belief to anaesthetize that part of the minds of otherwise rational men, the part which requires a morality by which to conduct one's life, and render it reason-proof against all logic and evidence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rule of Reason] Reference

It will take at least three onions to anaesthetize the Snimmy. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Garden of the Plynck] Reference

"credit-cards … anaesthetize your brain against the pain of payment.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Chattablogs] Reference

I’ve always been that way and it seems impossible to anaesthetize myself to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [lily-white Diary Entry] Reference

Then, with a note of apology, "I'm sorry we'll have to anaesthetize you, but you've been in one position so long that moving you will be rather painful.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Penal Cluster] Reference

They drank to anaesthetize themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lance Mannion:] Reference

Curtis admits that at one point, she'd "anaesthetize.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lead Stories from AOL] Reference

And "anaesthetize"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Garden of the Plynck] Reference

I’ve come to anaesthetize you!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flu Kitteh is in your haus - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference