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narcotic
Part of speech: NounA medicine which relieves pain and produces sleep, and sometimes, in excessive doses, causes death.
Part of speech: AdjectiveProducing sleep.
Usage examples "narcotic":- That narcotic would never be given to her. - "The Unbearable Bassington", Saki.
- But it wouldn't occasion me the least surprise to learn that a pinch of tobacco or some narcotic was put in your drink for some ulterior object. - "Ulysses", James Joyce.
- Whether salt water and sea air act as a narcotic on memories of the past and dreams of the future has never been proved, but it is undeniably true that at sea time becomes a static thing and concerns itself solely with the affairs of the moment. - "The Honorable Percival", Alice Hegan Rice.