Narcotic

Definition of narcotic:

part of speech: noun

A medicine producing sleep or stupor.

part of speech: noun

A medicine inducing sleep.

part of speech: adjective

Producing sleep.

part of speech: adjective

Producing torpor, sleep, or deadness.

part of speech: noun

A medicine which relieves pain and produces sleep, and sometimes, in excessive doses, causes death.

part of speech: noun

A drug which produces unconsciousness.

part of speech: adjective

Inducing sleep or torpor.

part of speech: adverb

NAROOTICALLY.

Usage examples for narcotic:

• With narcotic poisoning, the symptoms come on more slowly. "A Practical Physiology", Albert F. Blaisdell.

• Something was happening to Truedale- he felt as if the effect of some narcotic were losing its power; the fevered unreality was giving place to sensation but the brain was recording it dully. "The Man Thou Gavest", Harriet T. Comstock.

• Some hours of intense effort and strain; then she and the husband looked down upon the patient, a woman of about six- and- twenty, plunged suddenly in narcotic sleep, her matted black hair, which Marcella had not dared to touch, lying in wild waves on the clean bed- clothes and night- gear that her nurse had extracted from this neighbour and that- she could hardly have told how. "Marcella", Mrs. Humphry Ward.

• They hang black above a cave, and waves come in to prowl and snakes with scales like gems twine back and forth, glittering in the half light, with narcotic and effortless motion, until they with the rocks and all the scene fade. "Minstrel Weather", Marian Storm.