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The answer NARCOTIC has 96 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of narcotic in various dictionaries:
noun - a drug that produces numbness or stupor
adj - of or relating to or designating narcotics
adj - inducing stupor or narcosis
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| inducing stupor or narcosis |
| a drug that produces numbness or stupor often taken for pleasure or to reduce pain extensive use can lead to addiction |
| A soothing, numbing agent or thing: "There was the blessed narcotic of bridge, at the Colony or at the home of friends ( Louis Auchincloss). |
| Of, relating to, or intended for one addicted to a narcotic. |
| Of or relating to narcotics, their effects, or their use. |
| Inducing sleep or stupor causing narcosis. |
| An addictive drug, such as opium, that reduces pain, alters mood and behavior, and usually induces sleep or stupor. Natural and synthetic narcotics are used in medicine to control pain. |
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The term narcotic (, from ancient Greek nark, "to make numb") originally referred medically to any psychoactive compound with sleep-inducing properties. In the United States, it has since become associated with opiates and opioids, commonly morphine and heroin, as well as derivatives of many of the compounds found within raw opium latex. The primary three are morphine, codeine, and thebaine (while thebaine itself is only very mildly psychoactive, it is a crucial precursor in the vast majority of semi-synthetic opioids, such as oxycodone). * Legally speaking, the term "narcotic" is imprecisely defined and typically has negative connotations. When used in a legal context in the U.S., a narcotic drug is one that is totally prohibited, such as heroin, or one that is used in violation of governmental regulation. * In the medical community, the term is more precisely defined and generally does not carry the same negative connotations.Statutory classification of a drug as a narcotic often incr |