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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 " is a song by Canadian rock band Three Days Grace . This is the first single released by Three Days Grace with new singer Matt Walst , following the departure of Adam Gontier . It is the lead single off the band's fifth studio album Human .
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 ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A drug that numbs the pain in the body.
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.