laudanum

[US]/'lɔːd(ə)nəm/
[UK]/'lɔdənəm/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. tincture of opium; opioid solution
Word Forms
Plurallaudanums

Example Sentences

How long have you been taking laudanum?

To calm his mind he began to take laudanum.

The doctor prescribed laudanum for the patient's pain.

Laudanum was commonly used as a painkiller in the 19th century.

She took laudanum to help her sleep.

The laudanum addiction led to serious health issues.

The poet used laudanum to cope with his depression.

Laudanum overdose can be fatal.

The nurse administered laudanum to the patient in small doses.

Laudanum was once a popular remedy for various ailments.

The use of laudanum declined with the development of modern medicine.

The novelist portrayed a character addicted to laudanum in his book.

Real-world Examples

And so Branwell spent more and more time drinking, and taking laudanum, and walking alone on the moors.

Source: The Story of the Brontë Family

He found him half suffocated by the laudanum that had been contained in the wine.

Source: The Red and the Black (Part Four)

'The laudanum has taken effect at last, ' murmured the girl, as she rose from the bedside.

Source: Oliver Twist (Original Version)

'It's not very easy for me to leave him unless he knows why; I couldn't give him a drink of laudanum before I came away.

Source: Oliver Twist (Original Version)

There remains but Keats;whom Atropos slew young, as she slew John Clare in a mad-house, and James Thomson by the laudanum he took to drug disappointment.

Source: A room of one's own.

Harvested from poppies grown in British  India, opium was officially banned in Britain, and you could only buy it when  it was diluted to make laudanum.

Source: Charming history

She adopted him as a son who would share her solitude and relieve her from the involuntary laudanum that her mad beseeching had thrown into Remedios' coffee.

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

'There's Bill Sikes in the passage with nobody to do the civil to him; and you sleeping there, as if you took laudanum with your meals, and nothing stronger.

Source: Oliver Twist (Original Version)

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