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Chloroform

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Noun
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chlo=ro=form

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Chloroform has 1 sense

Verb Chloroform has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

Chloroformn. [Chlorine + formyl, it having been regarded as a trichloride of this radical: cf. F. chloroforme, G. chloroform.].
     A colorless volatile liquid, CHCl3, having an ethereal odor and a sweetish taste, formed by treating alcohol with chlorine and an alkali. It is a powerful solvent of wax, resin, etc., and is extensively used to produce anæsthesia in surgical operations; also externally, to alleviate pain.  [1913 Webster]
Chloroformv. t. 
     To treat with chloroform, or to place under its influence.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Chloroform, n. & v.
--n. a colourless volatile sweet-smelling liquid used as a solvent and formerly used as a general anaesthetic.

Usage
Chem. formula: CHCl3.
--v.tr. render (a person) unconscious with this.
Etymology
F chloroforme formed as CHLORO- + formyle: see FORMIC (ACID)

THESAURUS

Chloroform

KO, Pentothal, anesthetize, annihilate, bedaze, benumb, bereave of life, besot, blunt, carry away, carry off, cocaine, coldcock, cut down, cut off, deaden, deprive of life, desensitize, destroy, dispatch, dispose of, do away with, do for, do to death, dope, drug, dull, end, ether, etherize, ethyl chloride, ethylene, execute, exterminate, finish, finish off, freeze, gas, immolate, kayo, kill, knock out, knock senseless, knock stiff, knock unconscious, launch into eternity, lay out, liquidate, lynch, make away with, martyr, martyrize, menthol, narcotize, nitrous oxide, numb, obtund, palsy, paralyze, poison, purge, put away, put down, put to death, put to sleep, remove from life, sacrifice, slay, starve, stun, stupefy, take life, take off

ROGET THESAURUS

Chloroform

Insensibility

VB be insensible, have a rhinoceros hide, show insensibility, not mind, not care, not be affected by, have no desire for, have no interest in, feel no interest in, take no interest in, nil admirari, not care a straw for, disregard, set at naught, turn a deaf ear to, vegetate, render insensible, render callous, blunt, obtund, numb, benumb, paralyze, deaden, hebetate, stun, stupefy, brutify, brutalize, chloroform, anaesthetize, put under, assify, inure, harden the heart, steel, caseharden, sear.

Physical Insensibility

N insensibility, physical insensibility, obtuseness, palsy, paralysis, paraesthesia, anaesthesia, sleep, hemiplegia, motor paralysis, vegetable state, coma, anaesthetic agent, opium, ether, chloroform, chloral, nitrous oxide, laughing gas, exhilarating gas, protoxide of nitrogen, refrigeration, insensible, unfeeling, senseless, impercipient, callous, thick- skinned, pachydermatous, hard, hardened, case hardened, proof, obtuse, dull, anaesthetic, comatose, paralytic, palsied, numb, dead.

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