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painkiller

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
painkiller \pain"kil`ler\ n. A medicine used in to relieve pain. Syn: analgesic, anodyne, pain pill.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Painkiller (also officially known as Pain Killer ) is a band originally formed in 1991. Their style can be described as a mix of avant-garde jazz and grindcore ; later albums also incorporated elements of ambient and dub . The three primary members of the ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB take ▪ I took strong painkillers so that I could fly home immediately and be assessed here. ▪ Most, however, did not need to take painkillers . ▪ But hangover sufferers should be careful not to take too many painkillers ...

Usage examples of painkiller.

It is a painkiller, a swelling-reducer, a fever-breaker, and an antiallergic drug.

The medics stretched my back back into shape, handed me a bottle of basic painkillers, and told me to get back to it.

Molina and someone had used painkillers prescribed for him on the hapless Lusian trooper.

Painkiller, blood-thinner, tranquillizer, vasodilator, and diuretic all drip into his system from above, painting the hospital world with rosy tints of benevolence and amusement.

Medics dowsed the two with fresh water, plucked away the leeches, cut away their garments, all the while injecting them with painkillers and drying them off with crumpled veils of gauze and a hot air blower.

Moving carefully and with many pauses, he extricated himself from between the couches, turned toward the fax, and pulled up a hypercomputer interface beside it so he could search the onboard libraries for a suitable painkiller.

The kind of operations patients underwent in the Trauma Unit required heavy doses of painkillers, doses that could only be administered intramuscularly or intravenously.

I rubbed salve in to make it flexible, and took painkillers when necessary.

He got her a fresh glass of water and shook two more painkillers out of the tube in his first-aid kit.

The strain of fighting his illness, the painkillers that wrapped his head in cotton, or probably some unholy combination of both, were moving him from laughter to tears within seconds.

He had taken painkillers and had a double Scotch to make sure they went down.

No amputations were scheduled for this first majlis, and when they were resumedsparingly under Islamic law, the Vizier intended to have a physician standing by with a tourniquet and painkillers.

Still, he was the more mobile of the two, as Linda was swaddled in smartcasts that both immobilized her and massaged her, all the while osmosing transdermal antiinflammatories and painkillers.

Hesse's biographers say with certainty that although Hesse was familiar with drugs as painkillers for his gout and arthritis, he did not participate in the drug culture.

The label said dihydrocodeine, an excellent painkiller, especially when taken with aspirin, which boosts its effect.