All anaesthetising synonyms
verb anaesthetising
- meliorate β (transitive) To make better, to improve; to heal or solve a problem.
- mollify β to soften in feeling or temper, as a person; pacify; appease.
- nurse β a person formally educated and trained in the care of the sick or infirm. Compare nurse-midwife, nurse-practitioner, physician's assistant, practical nurse, registered nurse.
- pacify β to bring or restore to a state of peace or tranquillity; quiet; calm: to pacify an angry man.
- palliate β to relieve or lessen without curing; mitigate; alleviate.
- release β to lease again.
- relent β to soften in feeling, temper, or determination; become more mild, compassionate, or forgiving.
- slacken β If something slackens or if you slacken it, it becomes slower, less active, or less intense.
- smooth β free from projections or unevenness of surface; not rough: smooth wood; a smooth road.
- still β remaining in place or at rest; motionless; stationary: to stand still.
- tranquillize β To tranquillize a person or an animal means to make them become calm, sleepy, or unconscious by means of a drug.
- speed up β an increasing of speed.
- captivate β If you are captivated by someone or something, you find them fascinating and attractive.
- hypnotise β to put in the hypnotic state.
- bewitch β If someone or something bewitches you, you are so attracted to them that you cannot think about anything else.
- fascinate β to attract and hold attentively by a unique power, personal charm, unusual nature, or some other special quality; enthrall: a vivacity that fascinated the audience.
- mesmerise β to hypnotize.
- attract β If something attracts people or animals, it has features that cause them to come to it.
- charm β Charm is the quality of being pleasant or attractive.
- delight β Delight is a feeling of very great pleasure.
- gladden β to make glad.
- please β (used as a polite addition to requests, commands, etc.) if you would be so obliging; kindly: Please come here. Will you please turn the radio off?
- ravish β to fill with strong emotion, especially joy.
- rejoice β to be glad; take delight (often followed by in): to rejoice in another's happiness.
- spellbind β to hold or bind by or as if by a spell; enchant; entrance; fascinate.
- transport β to carry, move, or convey from one place to another.
- drug β the cosmic principle of disorder and falsehood.
- induce β to lead or move by persuasion or influence, as to some action or state of mind: to induce a person to buy a raffle ticket.
- magnetise β to make a magnet of or impart the properties of a magnet to.
- chill β When you chill something or when it chills, you lower its temperature so that it becomes colder but does not freeze.
- frost β Robert (Lee) 1874β1963, U.S. poet.
- immobilise β to make immobile or immovable; fix in place.
- obtund β to blunt; dull; deaden.
- demolish β To demolish something such as a building means to destroy it completely.
- disable β make not work
- halt β to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.
- appal β If something appals you, it disgusts you because it seems so bad or unpleasant.
- arrest β If the police arrest you, they take charge of you and take you to a police station, because they believe you may have committed a crime.
- astound β If something astounds you, you are very surprised by it.
- bemuse β If something bemuses you, it puzzles or confuses you.
- close β When you close something such as a door or lid or when it closes, it moves so that a hole, gap, or opening is covered.
- daunt β If something daunts you, it makes you feel slightly afraid or worried about dealing with it.
- daze β If someone is in a daze, they are feeling confused and unable to think clearly, often because they have had a shock or surprise.
- debilitate β If you are debilitated by something such as an illness, it causes your body or mind to become gradually weaker.
- disarm β to deprive of a weapon or weapons.
- lame β an ornamental fabric in which metallic threads, as of gold or silver, are woven with silk, wool, rayon, or cotton.
- nonplus β to render utterly perplexed; puzzle completely.
- palsy β any of a variety of atonal muscular conditions characterized by tremors of the body parts, as the hands, arms, or legs, or of the entire body.
- petrify β to convert into stone or a stony substance.