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- noun Plural form of
anodyne .
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Examples
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Des conversations anodynes, oui, mais pourtant importante.
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Last month in Leonhart's formal hearings, Sen. Herb Kohl D-Wis. questioned Leonhart to clarify her policy concerning new legislation to permit nurses in long-term care facilities to prescribe a range of anodynes including morphine to patients suffering intractable pain.
Michael Carmichael: Judiciary Committee Blocks Leonhart for DEA Michael Carmichael 2010
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Last month in Leonhart's formal hearings, Sen. Herb Kohl questioned Leonhart to clarify her policy concerning new legislation to permit nurses in long-term care facilities to prescribe a range of anodynes including morphine to patients suffering intractable pain.
Michael Carmichael: Judiciary Committee Member to Block Leonhart for DEA Michael Carmichael 2010
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Des conversations anodynes, oui, mais pourtant importante.
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Imams began to recite their prayers; towards the close of this melancholy day Vathek sobbed in silence, for they had been forced to compose with anodynes his convulsions of rage and desperation.
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What with his injuries down in the land of the Ice People, he'd become something of an expert on the anodynes made from poppy sap.
Rulers of the Darkness Turtledove, Harry 2002
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It must have had a false bottom, a magical gold cube from which she, a magical girl from another world who'd infiltrated the party guests, could call forth all manner of things, balms and anodynes, unicorns and gemi.
The End of the Pier Grimes, Martha 1994
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They had specific duties to perform and ample free time for the usual soldierly anodynes to boredom.
The Forever War Haldeman, Joe 1975
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He asked the circumstances of the case, and ordered bleeding and anodynes.
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But there was dear Mrs. Widesworth, so deliciously drugged by the anodynes of Authority that she could shake the chains of custom till they jingled like sleigh-bells.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 Various
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