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painkilling

adj

Etymology

From pain + killing.

  1. inherited from kyllyng
  2. compounded as painkilling — “pain + killing”

Definitions

  1. Reducing or eliminating pain.

    • The doctor prescribed a painkilling medication.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA