Cocainize

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To anesthetize or treat (someone, or something such as a body part) with cocaine. transitive

    "The animal was anesthetized with ether or the skin over the femoral artery cocainized, the artery exposed and cannulized, and the animal bled to death."

  2. 2
    anesthetize with cocaine wordnet

Example

More examples

"The animal was anesthetized with ether or the skin over the femoral artery cocainized, the artery exposed and cannulized, and the animal bled to death."

Etymology

From cocaine + -ize.

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