About The Word Narcotic
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Narcotic
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What's The Definition Of Narcotic?
[n] a drug that produces numbness or stupor; often taken for pleasure or to reduce pain; extensive use can lead to addiction
[adj] inducing mental lethargy; "a narcotic speech" [adj] inducing stupor or narcosis; "narcotic drugs" [adj] of or relating to or designating narcotics; "narcotic addicts"; "narcotic stupor" Synonyms | Synonyms for Narcotic: depressant | narcotising | narcotizing | soporiferous | soporific | uninteresting Related Terms | Find terms related to Narcotic: alcohol | amobarbital sodium | Amytal | Amytal pill | analgesic | anesthetic | anodyne | barb | barbiturate | barbiturate pill | black stuff | blue | blue angel | blue devil | blue heaven | blue velvet | calmant | calmative | chloral hydrate | codeine | codeine cough syrup | deadening | Demerol | depressant | depressor | dolly | Dolophine | dope | downer | drug | dulling | goofball | H | hard stuff | heroin | hop | horse | hypnotic | junk | knockout drop | knockout drops | laudanum | Lethean | liquor | lotus | Luminal | Luminal pill | M | meperidine | methadone | Mickey Finn | Nembutal | Nembutal pill | nepenthe | numbing | opiate | opium | pacifier | pain killer | pain-killer | paregoric | pen yan | phenobarbital | phenobarbital sodium | purple heart | quietener | quietening | rainbow | red | scag | secobarbital sodium | Seconal | Seconal pill | sedative | shit | sleep-causing | sleep-compelling | sleeper | sleep-inducer | sleep-inducing | sleeping draught | sleeping pill | sleep-inviting | sleep-provoking | smack | sodium thiopental | somnifacient | somniferous | somnolent | soother | soothing | soothing syrup | soporific | stunning | stupefactive | stupefying | stuporific | tar | tranquilizer | tranquilizing | Tuinal | Tuinal pill | turps | white stuff | yellow | yellow jacket See Also | codeine | deck | Demerol | dolophine hydrochloride | drug | fixer | hard drug | laudanum | meperidine | meperidine hydrochloride | methadon | methadone | methadone hydrochloride | morphia | morphine | opiate | opium | synthetic heroin | tincture of opium Narcotic In Webster's Dictionary \Nar*cot"ic\, a. [F. narcotique, Gr. ??????????, fr.
??????? to benumb, na`rkh numbness, torpor.] (Med.)
Having the properties of a narcotic; operating as a narcotic.
-- {Nar*cot"ic*ness}, n.
\Nar*cot"ic\, n. (Med.) A drug which, in medicinal doses, generally allays morbid susceptibility, relieves pain, and produces sleep; but which, in poisonous doses, produces stupor, coma, or convulsions, and, when given in sufficient quantity, causes death. The best examples are opium (with morphine), belladonna (with atropine), and conium. Nercotykes and opye (opium) of Thebes. --Chaucer. |
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