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anodyne

[an-uh-dahyn] / ˈæn əˌdaɪn /
NOUN
painkiller
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Anodyne still lifes and depopulated landscapes curdle into premonitions of disaster.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2018

At the Anodyne site in North Miami Beach on Friday, the AP found three sealed steel drums labeled as being filled with “IDW” soil and water in the open, weed-covered field behind a building.

From Washington Times • Sep. 9, 2017

It serves single-origin coffee from Milwaukee’s Anodyne Coffee.

From New York Times • Jul. 31, 2014

A Second murmured, "Surely we might learn Some undiminished Anodyne to burn, For ne'er a Smoker puffed a good Cigar But wished Another Like It might return."

From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr. by Irwin, Wallace

In the evening the young lady was sufficiently recovered to join the little party in the drawing-room, which consisted, as before, of Mr. Falconer, Mr. Gryll, Doctor Anodyne, and the Reverend Doctor Opimian.

From Gryll Grange by Peacock, Thomas Love




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