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 Translation for 'painkiller' from English to French
NOUN   a painkiller | painkillers
SYNO analgesic | anodyne | painkiller | ...
méd.
analgésique {m}
painkiller [coll.]
2
pharm.
calmant {m}
painkiller
méd.pharm.
comprimé {m} contre la douleur
painkiller [coll.] [in form of a pill]
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Usage Examples English
  • Mike returned in 2022 where he made amends with Nancy Wesley and took Jennifer to rehab after she relapsed in her painkiller addiction.
  • From March 2019, the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) banned the drug, after riders were using the painkiller to improve their performance.
  • ... lactiflora") are used in traditional Chinese medicine as a painkiller, tranquilliser and anti-inflammatory drug, and as a cure against cardiovascular disease and bleeding.
  • 1975 – Eastern Suburbs beat St. George by a then record 38–0 score line. St. George fullback Graeme Langlands plays the game in white boots and has a painkiller injection go wrong.
  • The mechanic was outraged, and the doctors soon found the real reason – that so much painkiller was in Rivière's blood that his hands were too slow to operate the brakes.

  • Toxicological tests showed potentially lethal levels of the painkiller Darvon in her system.
  • In an April 2008 interview for ESPN, Fike admitted to years of painkiller abuse, as well as heroin use on race days.
  • The excessive use of painkillers can paradoxically cause worsening painkiller headaches.
  • Adams died of a drug overdose on August 13, 2007 by mixing the painkiller buprenorphine with the muscle relaxant carisoprodol and the sedatives chlordiazepoxide and alprazolam.
  • In July 2022, Kirkland opened up about his painkiller addiction, and revealed he had previously considered taking his own life.

  • Like other willows, it contains salicin, and was used by Native Americans as a painkiller.
  • In August 2022, Colombian rider Nairo Quintana of Arkéa–Samsic was disqualified from 6th place overall, after blood samples tested positive for tramadol, a painkiller.
  • The painkiller Aspro was invented by the chemist George Nicholas in Windsor.
  • While strong opiates are heavily regulated within the European Union, there is a "hidden addiction" with codeine. Codeine, though a mild painkiller, is converted into morphine in the liver.
  • Danish writer Tove Ditlevsen suffered a lifelong addiction to pethidine after her husband, a doctor, had injected her with Demerol as a painkiller for an illegal abortion in 1944.

  • He is the author of "Pill Head: The Secret Life of a Painkiller Addict", published by Hyperion on July 7, 2009.
  • Anadin is a brand of painkiller sold in the UK and Ireland, launched in 1932, originally by American pharmaceutical company Anacin and currently by Pfizer.
  • Treadwell died on 23 June 2020, aged 34, in Billingsley, Shropshire after taking a mixture of drugs including an animal painkiller and class A substances.
  • The company hopes to bounce back with its newest drug, Cymbalta, a painkiller and an antidepressant combined.
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