narcotic Definition
nar·cotic (när kät′ik)
noun
- a drug, as opium or any of its derivatives (morphine, heroin, codeine, etc.), used to relieve pain and induce sleep: narcotics are often addictive and in excessive doses can cause stupor, coma, or death
- anything that has a soothing, lulling, or dulling effect
Etymology: ME narcotyke < OFr narcotique, orig. adj. < ML narcoticus < Gr narkoun, to benumb < narkē, numbness, stupor < IE *nerk- < base *(s)ner-, to twist, entwine > snare, narrow
adjective
- of, like, or capable of producing narcosis
- of, by, or for narcotic addicts
narcotic Synonyms
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narcotic Law Definition
n
A drug that, by law,
is illegal or designated a controlled substance.
narcotic Usage Examples
Converse of object
- combine: If you have severe and prolonged pain, then the pain may require narcotics often combined with antidepressants.
- require: If you have severe and prolonged pain, then the pain may require narcotics often combined with antidepressants.
- take: Avoid use of analgesics helps to control pain Avoid taking narcotics, try aspirin, NSAIDs.
- use: Do you drink or use any narcotics ( alcohol and narcotics may alter the response to diazepam )?
- consume: The alternative is a humane policy framework that recognizes the incentives to produce, traffic and consume narcotics.
- administer: Mothers and nurses both administer narcotics; the former, however, principally with the view to obtaining an undisturbed night's rest.
Adjective modifier
- illegal: The truth spoken was that the Central Intelligence Agency had engaged in the wholesale distribution of illegal narcotics.
- other: The League of Arab States asserted that in the Middle East hashish was preferred to other narcotics.
- illicit: Yes, they are, but that's probably only because the police have become better than ever at finding illicit narcotics.
- mild: Alder is a mild narcotic that can reduce stress and cheer you up in the form of jam and elderflower cordial etc!
- international: International narcotics, control agitation caused by valium diazepam.
- more: I have also seen young lives and brilliant minds ruined by the addict's need for more narcotics.
Modifies a noun
- analgesic: The cognitive effects of the administration of narcotic analgesics in patients with cancer pain.
- trafficker: In June, the United States also designated the FARC and the AUC as significant foreign narcotics traffickers under the Kingpin Act.
- trafficking: Profits from cigarette smuggling rival those of narcotics trafficking.
- reliever: One third of all patients no longer required narcotic pain relievers at three months.
- detective: Rookie undercover narcotics detective Jayne Harrow was framed in a phony drug bust.
- drug: However, many modern readers may make a connection with the temptations and effects of narcotic drugs.
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