cloroformizar

To anesthetize with chloroform — a dated medical/technical verb from an anesthesia method largely replaced by modern techniques. Today it survives mostly in historical, literary, or crime-fiction contexts (the classic "chloroformed handkerchief" scene) rather than real medical practice.

• En la novela, el villano cloroformizó a la víctima. — In the novel, the villain chloroformed the victim.
• Antiguamente se cloroformizaba a los pacientes antes de operar. — In the old days, patients used to be chloroformed before surgery.
• El método de cloroformizar cayó en desuso hace décadas. — The method of chloroforming fell out of use decades ago.

This verb belongs to historical/fictional contexts, not modern medicine — real anesthesia today uses anestesiar with modern drugs, not chloroform.

Often confused with anestesiar.