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Synonyms for anodyne

Grammar : Noun
Spell : an-uh-dahyn
Phonetic Transcription : ˈæn əˌdaɪn

Définition of anodyne

Origin :
  • 1540s, from Medieval Latin anodynus "pain-removing, allaying pain," from Latin anodynus "painless," from Greek anodynos "free from pain," from an- "without" (see an- (1)) + odyne "pain," a word perhaps from PIE root *ed- "to eat" (cf., from the same root, Lithuanian edžioti "to devour, bite," edžiotis "to suffer pain;" see eat). In old slang, frequently a euphemism for "death;" e.g. anodyne necklace "hangman's noose."
  • noun painkiller
Example sentences :
  • I crave for the balm of Nature, the anodyne of solitude, the breath of Mother Earth.
  • Extract from : « Ballads of a Bohemian » by Robert W. Service
  • Every one in a passion in Italy is styled Eccellenza, as an "anodyne."
  • Extract from : « The Daltons, Volume II (of II) » by Charles James Lever
  • Narcotic, anodyne, and anti-spasmodic; ten to twenty grains.
  • Extract from : « Cattle and Their Diseases » by Robert Jennings
  • Even the knowledge that he loved her ceased to be an anodyne in those days.
  • Extract from : « Mary Gray » by Katharine Tynan
  • I'd have slapped her across the face as an anodyne if she hadn't been Mekstrom.
  • Extract from : « Highways in Hiding » by George Oliver Smith
  • She had nerved herself for a great ordeal, but the air was as sweet as an anodyne.
  • Extract from : « The Marriages » by Henry James
  • Life holds no anodyne for the sorrows we bring upon ourselves.
  • Extract from : « Captain Desmond, V.C. » by Maud Diver
  • The excitements of purchase and preparation were as good an anodyne as she could have taken.
  • Extract from : « Saint's Progress » by John Galsworthy
  • It would be an anodyne like poison that could weigh down my eyelids.
  • Extract from : « A Struggle For Life » by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  • Had faith ever been anything but anodyne, or gratification of the aesthetic sense?
  • Extract from : « The Freelands » by John Galsworthy

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