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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
narcotic/nɑːˈkɒtɪk/

▶noun an addictive drug, especially an illegal one, that affects mood or behaviour.

■ Medicine a drug which induces drowsiness, stupor, or insensibility and relieves pain.

▶adjective relating to narcotics.

– derivatives
narcotically adverb,
narcotism noun
narcotize (or narcotise) verb.

– origin ME: from OFr. narcotique, via med. L. from Gk narkōtikos, from narkoun ‘make numb’.

'narcotic' also found in these Oxford entries:

bhang - class - comedown - do - drug - fix - goofball - heroin - hit - hop - jack - kava - laudanum - mandragora - narcissus - narco - narco- - nightshade - opium - pentobarbitone - phenobarbitone - push - shoot - sinsemilla - skunkweed - substance - sugar

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