Crossword-Solution: OPIUM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Opium | n. | The inspissated juice of the Papaver somniferum, or white poppy. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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greedy person
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Sentences with OPIUM (5)
Narcotics are drugs that relieve pain, often induce sleep, and refer to opium, opium derivatives, and synthetic substitutes.
Only I’m dreadful sorry you’re hurt, and I can’t help crying.” His broad, earnest face, languid from the opium and smiling with such simple happiness, reassured her.
Sometimes they said he was given up to smoking opium and collecting old books; sometimes he was reported to be trying strange things in chemistry; sometimes he was seen carousing and amusing himself among the lowest people in the lowest slums of London.
His wife--a handsome, hard-working, and, indeed, over-worked woman objected to the opium, but objected much more to a live Indian hermit in white and yellow robes, whom her husband insisted on entertaining for months together, a Virgil to guide his spirit through the heavens and the hells of the east.
They include many of the active principles in plants; thus, morphine and narcotine are alkaloids found in opium.
Quotes with OPIUM (3)
Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics.
Happiness, said De Quincey, on his discovery of the paradise that he thought he had found in opium, could be sent down by the mail-coach; more truly I could announce my discovery that delight could be contained in small octavos and small type, in a bookshelf three feet long.
Any way I slice reality it comes out poorly, and I feel an urge to not exist, something I have never felt before; and now here it comes with conviction, almost panic. I mentally bless and exonerate anyone who has kicked a chair out from beneath her or swallowed opium in large chunks. My mind has met their environment, here in the void. I understand perfectly.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 138 times in crossword archives (1953–2024).