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opiate


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noun

1‘six of the patients used an opiate during the radiotherapy’

SYNONYMS
drug, narcotic, mind-altering drug, sedative, tranquillizer, depressant, sleeping pill, soporific, anaesthetic, painkiller, analgesic, anodyne
barbiturate, bromide, morphine, opium, laudanum
Medicine calmative, palliative, stupefacient
informal dope, downer
literary nepenthes
dated sleeping draught