To cause apesthesia; to eliminate or reduce the sense of touch or tactile sensation.
Formed from 'apesthetic' with the productive verbal suffix '-ize' (meaning to make or cause). This follows the same pattern as 'anesthetize', adapting medical concepts into action words.
The '-ize' suffix is a linguistic superpower that turns adjectives into verbs—just as 'anesthetize' means to make someone unable to feel pain, 'apesthetize' would mean to deliberately remove that sensory connection.
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