Crossword-Solution: OPIATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Opiate | n. | Originally, a medicine of a thicker consistence than sirup, prepared with opium. |
| Opiate | n. | Any medicine that contains opium, and has the quality of inducing sleep or repose; a narcotic. |
| Opiate | n. | Anything which induces rest or inaction; that which quiets uneasiness. |
| Opiate | a. | Inducing sleep; somniferous; narcotic; hence, anodyne; causing rest, dullness, or inaction; as, the opiate rod of Hermes. |
| Opiate | v. t. | To subject to the influence of an opiate; to put to sleep. |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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greedy person
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Sentences with OPIATE (5)
His concern at this dilemma (which would have been alarm, had he been a thriving man; but misfortune is a fine opiate to personal terror) led him to peer cautiously from the hay, and the first sight he beheld was the stars above him.
But, though the bank was almost always with him, and though the coach (in a confused way, like the presence of pain under an opiate) was always with him, there was another current of impression that never ceased to run, all through the night.
See Anodyne, a.] Any medicine which allays pain, as an opiate or narcotic; anything that soothes disturbed feelings.
The tall, lithe magnificence of her form, the airy elegance of her toilet, which seemed the perfection of self-concealing art, the elastic deliberateness of her step--all wrought like a gentle, deliciously soothing opiate upon the Norseman’s fancy and lifted him into hitherto unknown regions of mingled misery and bliss.
The opiate worked itself off towards dusk, and she waked naturally; she looked a different being from what she had been before the operation.
Quotes with OPIATE (3)
Islam and Christianity promise eternal paradise to the faithful. And that is a powerful opiate, certainly, the hope of a better life to come. But there's a Sufi story that challenges the notion that people believe only because they need an opiate. Rabe'a al-Adiwiyah, a great woman saint of Sufism, was seem running through the streets of her hometown, Basra, carrying a torch in one hand and a bucket of water in the other. When someone asked her what she was doing, she answered…
ligion is the opiate of the masses." "I did masses of opiates religiously.
Calvin:"It says here that 'religion is the opiate of the masses.'... what do you suppose that means?" Television: "... it means that Karl Marx hadn't seen anything yet
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 249 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).