Drugs for him were never recreational; they were to anaesthetise.

Their plan to have a sleep-inducing match in order to anaesthetise the crowd worked wonderfully well.

Similarly, the increasing number of charitable collections can anaesthetise the public to the needs of vulnerable people.

They anaesthetise investors to risk.

The government seeks to confuse us with jargon, misinformation and contradictory statements, and deploys slogans to anaesthetise us from its actions.

It's 1999 and I'm in a tattoo parlour in Mill Hill armed with a copy of British Vogue to anaesthetise my brain.

The nurses held my hand as doctors shone lights into my eye, agonisingly, and put drops in to anaesthetise and dilate the pupil.

The intoxicating Liquor Act is too young to be blamed for hangovers yet, but one headache it won't anaesthetise is the problem of under-age drinking.

No longer is anaesthetising oneself with alcohol seen as appropriate mourning behaviour.

One might as well be anaesthetised to the mundane world around us.

He anaesthetised the brains of young people growing up in these years.

Dr Levansky explained that she had been anaesthetised and not felt any pain.

While smolts, the fish are anaesthetised in a bath and shot in the belly.

Bolt was anaesthetised from the waste down during the process.

The zoo staff has trained the gorillas to go through the basic electrocardiogram without being anaesthetised.

To differentiate by manipulation between muscular fixation and ankylosis, it may be necessary to anæsthetise the patient.