Opiate

Definitions

1. A drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium.
2. Something that dulls the senses and induces a false and unrealistic sense of contentment.

Equivalents

Examples

“They chose atheism as an opiate.”

“The music—the fragrance of the flowers, whose odour was exhaling in the now falling dew—the languor of recent exertion—the sense⟳ of past dangers and present⟳ security—operated on Beatrice like⟳ the first and delicious stage⟳ of an opiate.”

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