painkiller
noun
pain·kill·er
ˈpān-ˌki-lər 
variants
or less commonly pain-killer
: something (such as a drug) that relieves pain
Examples of painkiller in a Sentence
I took some over-the-counter painkillers for my headache.
after her oral surgery, she was given a prescription for a mild painkiller
Recent Examples on the Web
Baltimore was particularly hard hit over the years, with millions of doses of the addictive painkillers prescribed in a city with a history of addictions and numerous vulnerabilities.
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Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 13 June 2024
Give for-profit firms the freedom to develop highly addictive painkillers and to promote them via sophisticated, aggressive, and very effective marketing campaigns targeted at doctors.
—Paul Romer, Foreign Affairs, 11 Feb. 2020
Drugs in the Valium class and painkillers have a reversing agent that's commercially available.
—Katherine Harmon, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2011
One of them, who spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid prosecution, said that at the time patients were not given enough painkillers during painful procedures.
—Bilal Shbair, New York Times, 6 June 2024
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Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 13 June 2024
Give for-profit firms the freedom to develop highly addictive painkillers and to promote them via sophisticated, aggressive, and very effective marketing campaigns targeted at doctors.
—Paul Romer, Foreign Affairs, 11 Feb. 2020
Drugs in the Valium class and painkillers have a reversing agent that's commercially available.
—Katherine Harmon, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2011
One of them, who spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid prosecution, said that at the time patients were not given enough painkillers during painful procedures.
—Bilal Shbair, New York Times, 6 June 2024
See all Example Sentences for painkiller
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“Painkiller.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/painkiller. Accessed 7 Jul. 2024.
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