narcotic

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Any substance or drug that reduces pain, induces sleep and may alter mood or behaviour; in some contexts, especially in reference to the opiates-and-opioids class, especially in reference to illegal drugs, and often both.

   “"Real San Juan Colorado," he said. "Excitable people like you are the better for narcotics. Heavens! don't bite it! Cut - and cut with reverence!"”

2. isim Any type of numbing or soothing drug.

   “But, for the unquiet heart and brain, ⁠A use in measured language lies; ⁠The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain.”

3. sıfat Of, or relating to narcotics.
4. sıfat Inducing sleep; causing narcosis.

   “The duration of a prescription may give clues into how long a person ends up using a narcotic painkiller, a new study finds.”