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pain killer
noun as in medicine to kill pain
Example Sentences
In 2019, Taylor was restored to good standing in Louisiana after a 2012 drug violation for the drug Dermorphin, a pain killer, known as frog juice because its origin was from secretions of South American tree frogs.
If the pain is severe or chronic, you might be prescribed something stronger -- an opioid pain killer that can be addictive under some circumstances.
“Fentanyl is the strongest pain killer that you can buy. … After five, six years, it has to affect him that’s why I think this is what has happened.”
"Simply offering paracetamol as a pain killer is not acceptable," she said.
“Painkiller” is based on two acclaimed journalistic accounts of the opioid epidemic — the 2003 book “Pain Killer: A ‘Wonder’ Drug’s Trail of Addiction and Death“ by Barry Meier, one of the earliest exposés on the subject, and “The Family That Built an Empire of Pain,” a New Yorker article about the Sackler dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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