anesthetize (v.)
- abate
- allay
- alleviate
- appease
- assuage
- bedaze
- benumb
- besot
- blunt
- chloroform
- coldcock
- cushion
- deaden
- desensitize
- diminish
- dope
- drug
- dull
- ease
- entrance
- etherize
- foment
- freeze
- hypnotize
- kayo
- lay
- lessen
- lull
- magnetize
- mesmerize
- mitigate
- mollify
- narcotize
- numb
- obtund
- pad
- palliate
- palsy
- paralyze
- poultice
- reduce
- relieve
- salve
- sedate
- slacken
- slake
- soften
- soothe
- stun
- stupefy
- subdue
- trance