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Chloroforming

Chloroform \Chlo"ro*form\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chloroformed; p. pr. & vb. n. Chloroforming.] To treat with chloroform, or to place under its influence.

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chloroforming

vb. (present participle of chloroform English)

Usage examples of "chloroforming".

It was Mark Hanna himself who founded the National Civic Federation, upon whose executive committee Catholic cardinals and archbishops might work hand in glove with Catholic labor-leaders for the chloroforming of the American working-class.

I stayed angry right through the chloroforming, right through the wiping.

There was in them something of the utter confiding helplessness I had noted in the eyes of an old setter at Chaynes-Wotten when I had been called upon to assist the undergardener in chloroforming him.

There is, of course, always the chance, not of chloroforming the shame, but of aggravating it and producing Despair.