The process of treating something with chloral or causing it to be affected by chloral.
Present participle of chloralize, from chloral + -ize (to treat or cause to become). The -ing form shows ongoing action.
This word captures a whole era of medicine when doctors would chloralize patients before surgery—imagine being put to sleep by a chemical before anyone knew about modern anesthesia!
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