put under

verb — 2 senses

put under

verb
1

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put, under.

2

Medicine, Sciences To anesthetize someone or render them unconscious through the use of narcotic substances, usually either alcohol or pharmaceutical drugs.

  • The doctor put me under before I went into surgery.
Related terms
put down, under the influence, under the knife

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