noun
- A drug that causes temporary loss of bodily sensations.
- synonyms: anesthetic, anesthetic agent, anaesthetic agent
adjective
- Relating to or producing insensibility.
- synonyms: anesthetic
- Characterized by insensibility.
- usage: "the young girls are in a state of possession-blind and deaf and anesthetic"; "an anesthetic state"
- synonyms: anesthetic
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