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narcotic

4 definitions • 4 examples
1
an illegal drug such as heroin or cocaine:

Examples:

He faces three years in jail for selling narcotics.
2
a drug that makes you want to sleep and prevents you feeling pain:

Examples:

Morphine is a narcotic.
3
relating to drugs that make you want to sleep and prevent pain:

Examples:

narcotic drugs
a narcotic effect
4
a type of drug that causes sleep and that is used medically to reduce the strength of pain, and that in some forms is also used illegally

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