as in sedative
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Recent Examples of relaxant
Ashwagandha comes with natural relaxant properties to calm down your mind and recharge your brain.
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Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2023
Perhaps most interesting is its airway relaxant potential in the treatment of asthma [2].
—Alice Chi Phung, Discover Magazine, 24 June 2014
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Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2023
Perhaps most interesting is its airway relaxant potential in the treatment of asthma [2].
—Alice Chi Phung, Discover Magazine, 24 June 2014
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for relaxant
Adjective
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In any case, chamomile flowers—which look like adorable, tiny daisies—contain flavonoids, terpenoids, and coumarins which certainly have mildly sedative, anti-inflammatory, and antispasmodic properties.—
Valentina Bottoni,
Vogue,
23 Oct. 2024
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The population is impatient and the sedative effect of the impeachment process will soon wear off, which could mean new protests and instability if there are no significant changes in the short term.—
Moisés Costa,
Foreign Affairs,
16 May 2016
Adjective
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This hardly seemed like the model community envisioned by the narcotic farms’ architects.—
TIME,
TIME,
10 Feb. 2025
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Shamar Walker, 23, was charged Friday with possession of a narcotic drug, a Level 6 felony, and misdemeanor resisting law enforcement.—
Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Jan. 2025
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The nineteenth century brought better opiate drugs for pain and effective surgical anesthesia.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
17 Jan. 2025
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Oxycodone and hydrocodone are in a class of medications called opiate (narcotic) analgesics (pain-relievers).—
Ayesha Gulzar,
Verywell Health,
3 Jan. 2025
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By 1984, Chicago DJs Frankie Knuckles and Ron Hardy were repurposing disco tracks with drum machines like the Roland TR-808 and 909 to create hypnotic beats.—
Joycelyn Wilson,
The Conversation,
30 Jan. 2025
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Fassbender may be too obviously statuesque for real spycraft, but his performance of an agent cracking under the weight of existential turmoil is so hypnotic that one forgives the incongruous casting choice.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
16 Jan. 2025
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“Relaxant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/relaxant. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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