Causing anesthesia; reducing pain sensitivity. / Insensate: unable to feel, or unconscious.

(American spelling, medicine) A substance administered to reduce the perception of pain or to induce numbness for surgery and may render the recipient unconscious.

plural of anesthetic

In an anesthetic manner / Regarding anesthetics

Alternative form of anesthetic

The administration of anesthesia.

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

simple past tense and past participle of anesthetize

Subject to anesthesia / (figuratively) Made to be unfeeling, alienated and emotionless.

present participle of anesthetize