Definitions
anesthetize with chloroform
Word origin
Borrowed from French chloroforme, portmanteau of terchloride (tertiary chloride, trichloride) and formyle (CH, an obsolete radical of formic acid) by Jean-Baptiste Dumas, from 1834. By surface analysis, chloro- + -form.
Used in a sentence
“Some assume that chloroform is a gas because it was given by inhalation.”
“Geoffrey was first chloroformed, I think. The hand that picked Nipper up to dispose of him had certainly touched chloroform just before. Drugged; does that bring us nearer by taking us further away, I wonder?”
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01“Old anesthetic”10 letters
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