Insentient - English meaning

verb

Administer an anaesthetic to (a person or animal), especially so as to induce a loss of consciousness.

Usage examples:

I was called to casualty to anaesthetize a patient

verb

Past simple and past participle of anaesthetize

Usage examples:

My doctor said i will not need to be anaesthetized during the procedure., making sure the patient i…

verb

To give anaesthetic (= a substance that makes you unable to feel pain) to a person or animal

Usage examples:

My doctor said i will not need to be anaesthetized during the procedure., making sure the patient i…

adjective

Relating to or in a state of coma.

Usage examples:

She had been comatose for seven months

adjective

(of a person) unconscious and not able to wake up, usually because of illness or injury

Usage examples:

The traffic accident left him comatose with massive brain damage.

adjective

In a coma

idiom

To be sleeping

Usage examples:

"is georgie up yet?" "i doubt it - she was dead to the world ten minutes ago."

adjective

Having been made less sensitive.

Usage examples:

Desensitized taste buds

verb

Make less sensitive.

Usage examples:

Creams to desensitize the skin at the site of the injection

verb

Past simple and past participle of desensitize

Usage examples:

Seeing too much violence on television can desensitize people to it.

adjective

Not alive.

Usage examples:

Inanimate objects like stones

adjective

Lacking the ability or strength to move.

Usage examples:

She lay inert in her bed

adjective

Not moving or not able to move

Usage examples:

The inert figure of a man lay in the front of the car., an inert gas

adjective

Not consisting of or deriving from living matter.

Usage examples:

It is no more than a cleverly crafted lump of inorganic matter; its shape and working parts are con…

adjective

Not consisting of living material, or relating to substances that do not contain living material

Usage examples:

Rocks and metals are inorganic., inorganic chemistry

adjective

Lacking physical sensation.

Usage examples:

A patient who was permanently unconscious and insensate

adjective

Not aware of what you are doing or what is happening around you

Usage examples:

He was virtually insensate after drinking half a bottle of whisky., insensate cruelty/brutality, in…

adjective

Dead or apparently dead.

Usage examples:

His lifeless body was taken from the river

adjective

Dead or appearing to be dead

Usage examples:

A lifeless body, fig. the performance was boring and lifeless (= lacking interest or energy).

adjective

(of a part of the body) deprived of the power of physical sensation.

Usage examples:

My feet were numb with cold

verb

Deprive of feeling or responsiveness.

Usage examples:

The cold had numbed her senses

adverb

Moving or appearing to move away from a particular place, especially one that is enclosed or hidden.

Usage examples:

He walked out into the street

preposition

Non-standard contraction of out of.

Usage examples:

He ran out the door

adjective

Not at home or at one's place of work.

Usage examples:

If he called, she'd pretend to be out

verb

Make (someone) unable to think or feel properly.

Usage examples:

The offence of administering drugs to a woman with intent to stupefy her

adjective

Unable to think clearly, usually because someone is extremely tired or bored, or has taken drugs

Usage examples:

Stupefied by tiredness, she just sat in front of the fire., as they slept in a stupefied state, som…

adjective

Not awake and aware of and responding to one's environment.

Usage examples:

The boy was beaten unconscious

noun

The part of the mind which is inaccessible to the conscious mind but which affects behaviour and emotions.

Usage examples:

Horrific apparitions surfaced out of the recesses of his unconscious

Lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception