opiate

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  1. noun Any of various sedative narcotics containing opium or one or more of its natural or synthetic derivatives.
  2. noun A drug, hormone, or other chemical substance having sedative or narcotic effects similar to those containing opium or its derivatives: a natural brain opiate. Also called opioid.
  3. noun Something that dulls the senses and induces relaxation or torpor.
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  • Then what did you give me that rendered me insensate An opiate--quite harmless--but effective.
  • An opiate has been administered--which you know all about, don't you, Forbes, since you are the one who administered it?
  • He has given the people of this realm an opiate, the circuses, the Festival, and corrupted the guilds of fighters and everything around them. —  The Gathering - Arena
  • Was it the opiate, the intoxicating aroma of herbs permeating the room, or something else, some magic of her own making? —  SexyBeastIV
  • Lortab is an opiate, and opiates were found in the boy's bloodstream, prosecutors said. —  2theadvocate.com Latest News
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  1. Middle English, from Medieval Latin opiātum, from Latin opium, opium; see opium.

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  1. = French opiat = Spanish Portuguese opiato = Italian oppiato, n., an opiate, electuary; from New Latin *opiatus, neuter as noun, opiatum, from Latin opium, opium: see opium and -ate.
  2. from opiate, n.
 

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