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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
painkilling
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Half the active substances used for rheumatic conditions also appear in the 100 or so painkilling preparations available.
▪ I couldn't be certain how much painkilling medication she had taken, but it was almost certainly not enough.
▪ The judge also ruled that medical staff could administer a painkilling sedative to assist him in the process.
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painkilling

a. Reducing or eliminating pain.

Usage examples of "painkilling".

Sophisticated antibacterial and painkilling drugs were no use without the means to inject them.

Iza taught her to prepare the painkilling drinks and poultices that eased his rheumatism, and Ayla made a specialty of the remedies for that affliction of the older members of the clan, whose suffering invariably worsened with their confinement to the cold stone cave.

Ayla had given the boy painkilling medicine that put him to sleep, then cleaned his wounds with an antiseptic solution, set the arm, and put on a cast of dampened birch bark.

She made no demur at his proposal to remove from the bathroom cabinet the prescription bottle of painkilling tablets labelled: Mrs I.