What is "suppressant"

Usage examples of "suppressant".

In addition, she had dextromethorphan on board, which is an antitussive found in numerous over-the-counter cough suppressants.

In most instances, it never would have been detected - providing a cough suppressant containing dextromethorphan was found inside her house.

By the time a sufficiency of nonreactive chemical retardants and suppressants could be brought from Aurora City, much of the glorious but debauched fair should be reduced to wind-blown cinders among which would drift the carbonized components of as many baked bugs as possible.

They are not suppressants but vital cell nutrients and are cumulative in their action.

The pain suppressants in his system were doing a good job of keeping him from noticing the progress of the bloodborne malignancy that was attacking his heart muscle, consuming him layer by layer from the inside.

Most had been too distracted to eat during the day, and the drug appeared to be a mild appetite suppressant.

Susan has considered posting this passage on her refrigerator as an appetite suppressant.

I had that feeling I used to get before the first day of school, a low-level dread that acted as an appetite suppressant.

This was still a hostile environment--it grew nothing edible to humans, and even if it did, Quirn would still need the food containing the descolada suppressants.

This was still a hostile environment-- it grew nothing edible to humans, and even if it did, Quirn would still need the food containing the descolada suppressants.

Neither d-tubocurarine, pavulon, succinylcholine nor ketamine are reticular formation suppressants, though they'll knock you out.

Decibel alarms were legally required in every meeting hall, in-chiding churches, but clever agitators could and had sabotaged them so that the suppressant gases were not released when the "noise" level reached the sharp pitch of incipient riot.

I commend your choice, but make certain everyone takes the proper coupling suppressants prior to departure.

We have with us an ample supply of suppressants which we have been hoarding since we oversubscribed more than a year ago.

I directly understood this, since my own mild attraction to the dazzling Valery Korstad had coalesced into a knotted desire that suppressants could numb but not destroy.