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Betäubungsmittel — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • anesthetic noun A drug used to stop pain or cause unconsciousness for a medical procedure.
  • drug noun A substance taken for its effect on the body or mind, whether medicinal or intoxicating.

Senses

Betäubungsmittel is used for these senses in English:

  • anesthetic (American spelling, medicine) A substance administered to reduce the perception of pain or to induce numbness for surgery and may render the recipient unconscious.
  • controlled substance (legal, criminology) A drug or chemical whose use, possession, manufacture, or sale is regulated or banned by the government.
  • drug A psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive, ingested for recreational use, such as cocaine.
  • local anesthetic (medicine) An anesthetic (anesthetic substance) that causes loss of sensation only to the area to which it is applied.

anesthetic — full definition

  1. noun A drug used to stop pain or cause unconsciousness for a medical procedure.
  2. adj Causing loss of sensation or reducing pain.

drug — full definition

  1. noun A substance taken for its effect on the body or mind, whether medicinal or intoxicating.
  2. verb To secretly give someone an intoxicating or sedating substance.

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