Aspirin has many anodyne properties. From LearnThat.org.
Noun : The music was an anodyne to his grief. From Dictionary.com.
HoF II was designed by the Taylor Morrison company, a home builder specializing in anodyne subdevelopmental housing in the Southwest. From Wordnik.com. [Future Schlock] Reference
She had this quote in her convention speech, a kind of anodyne quote about how small towns are good. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 7, 2008] Reference
As a noun, the English "anodyne" means "something that relieves pain," as you said, and as an adjective it means "pain-relieving.". From Wordnik.com. [anodin - French Word-A-Day] Reference
"Somebody has been giving it a powerful anodyne, that is certain. From Wordnik.com. [Heart-Histories and Life-Pictures] Reference
But to hear them now together was a kind of anodyne to Elinor, it stayed and calmed her. From Wordnik.com. [The Marriage of Elinor] Reference
Any pretext for action was a kind of anodyne, and she despatched her maid to the Farlows 'with a note asking if Miss Viner would receive her. From Wordnik.com. [The Reef] Reference
There's no anodyne like your good clean gravel, Sir. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859] Reference
To these laudanum may be added for its anodyne effect. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881] Reference
It's an anodyne name for a real bit of financial villainy. From Wordnik.com. [Digging into finance's pay dirt: The risky business of payday loans and more] Reference
So far, Western criticism of his harsh tactics have been anodyne. From Wordnik.com. [A Fragile Hold on Power] Reference
"It is without doubt the most valuable and certain anodyne we have.". From Wordnik.com. [A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes] Reference
Somewhere in his bag, he should have an anodyne tablet that would kill any ache. From Wordnik.com. [Badge of Infamy] Reference
"I will give you no anodyne, either actual or figurative," I answered, rising to go. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
But Iowans gave even more support to Barack Obama, whose political persona is anodyne. From Wordnik.com. [The GOP—Grand Old Pulpit] Reference
Sometimes a book is better far than medicine, and more truly soothing than the best anodyne. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865] Reference
Peace, then, and anodyne-repose, after a day of travel, were offered us by the friendly damster. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862] Reference
So anodyne are those three words that they give no indication of what the business actually does. From Wordnik.com. [Agenda: Actions Speak Louder Than Slogans] Reference
O, what would not I give for the discovery of some anodyne which would lay these horrible phantasms. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
As anodyne it gives more ease, and as anæsthetic leaves less after-effect to combat than any other. From Wordnik.com. [Ambrotox and Limping Dick] Reference
That tally alone ensures that Third Way summits, by whatever anodyne name, will remain on the calendar. From Wordnik.com. [Gerhard-Bill-Lionel-Tonyism?] Reference
This a useful anodyne application in irritable ulcers, painful hemorrhoids, and in cutaneous eruptions. From Wordnik.com. [One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed] Reference
That's why, when the Chinese army periodically crosses the border, India responds with anodyne criticism. From Wordnik.com. [Why India Must Stand Up to China] Reference
Her worry about the interview has amplified, sure, but there's also the anodyne thought of that bar, drinks. From Wordnik.com. [Into The Great Behind] Reference
It is useful also locally in rheumatic affections as a resolvent and anodyne, in acne, and as a parasiticide. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883] Reference
Chris had the anodyne tablets already dissolved in water, and Swanee was passing out three lighted bracky weeds. From Wordnik.com. [Badge of Infamy] Reference
The chilli sauce is surprisingly anodyne and sweet; Thompson says he wishes he had the "audacity to bring my own". From Wordnik.com. [One night in Bangkok on the trail of Thai street food] Reference
His response was anodyne, to say the least: "We'll promote our efforts ... based on the support plan," he declared. From Wordnik.com. [JAPAN: Bucking the Baby Bust] Reference
She went on to recite a list of anodyne promises: education for all children, health care, clean water and the like. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Italian Hope] Reference
This quandary is a typically anodyne European compromise which is bound to ferment into atrabilious discourse and worse. From Wordnik.com. [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference
Selznik's migraine, according to medical usage; you treated it with hot pads and anodyne, and it went away easily enough. From Wordnik.com. [Badge of Infamy] Reference
But time, favoured by a succession of pleasurable experiences, is a sovereign anodyne to remembrances of this poignant class. From Wordnik.com. [West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas] Reference
The note was fairly anodyne, but 41 was worried about an adverse reaction to the incumbent on the largely conservative campus. From Wordnik.com. [The Obama-Bush Connection] Reference
Today to conceal such unseemliness, the preference is to use anodyne terms like private security firms and private contractors. From Wordnik.com. [David Isenberg: Washington Rules and PMC] Reference
Feldman operated with a pocketknife sterilized in a bottle of expensive Scotch and only anodyne tablets in place of anesthesia. From Wordnik.com. [Badge of Infamy] Reference
The means which he employed, however, was the old anodyne: "Believe the best" -- that is to say, "Cultivate agreeable feelings.". From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
Some are in pain, and want to be rid of it, even though the anodyne be dropped, as in the legend, from the sword of the Death-Angel. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859] Reference
Boxer and other maximalists regarding the "right to choose" prefer the more anodyne but less descriptive phrase "late-term" abortion. From Wordnik.com. [Barbara Boxer in Context] Reference
It would be better, she thought, to remain in the Brassfield state of mind: thus one might find an anodyne for this sense of insignificance. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
Most candidates would have disputed the premise, or immediately tacked to talking points about being ready to lead, or something equally anodyne. From Wordnik.com. [The Editor’s Desk] Reference
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