painkiller

See also: pain killer

English

Alternative forms

• pain killer

Etymology

From pain +‎ killer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪnˌkɪlə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

painkiller (plural painkillers)

1. (pharmacology) A drug that numbs the pain in the body.
   • 2012 November 15, Maxwell Newfield, “Prescription drug deaths: Two stories”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     While taking one pill and dying is rare, dying accidentally after using painkillers inappropriately is common. […] The prescription painkiller Emily Jackson took is a respiratory depressant that slows breathing. That in combination with the alcohol, another respiratory depressant, overwhelmed her brain, which stopped giving her heart and lungs the signal to keep functioning.

Synonyms

• PK (initialism, informal)

Translations

a drug that numbs the pain in the body

• Afrikaans: pynstiller
• Arabic: ضِدَّ الأَلَم m (ḍidda l-ʔalam)
• Armenian: ցավազրկող (cʻavazrkoġ)
• Belarusian: анальге́тык m (analʹhjétyk), абязбо́львальнае n (abjazbólʹvalʹnaje)
• Bulgarian: болкоуспокоя́ващо n (bolkouspokojávašto)
• Catalan: analgèsic (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 止痛藥 / 止痛药 (zh) (zhǐtòngyào), 鎮痛劑 / 镇痛剂 (zh) (zhèntòngjì)

• Czech: analgetikum (cs) n
• Danish: smertestillende (da) c
• Dutch: pijnstiller (nl) m
• Esperanto: kontraŭdolorilo
• Finnish: kipulääke (fi), särkylääke (fi)
• French: analgésique (fr), antidouleur (fr) m
• Galician: analxésico (gl) m
• German: Schmerzmittel (de) n
• Greek: παυσίπονο (el) n (pafsípono)
• Hebrew: משכך כאבים m (meshakeḥ ke'evim)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: fájdalomcsillapító (hu)
• Irish: pianmhúchán m
• Italian: antidolorifico (it) m, analgesico (it) m
• Japanese: 痛み止め (ja) (いたみどめ, itamidome), 鎮静剤 (ja) (ちんせいざい, chinseizai)
• Korean: 진통제(鎭痛劑) (ko) (jintongje)
• Krio: penkila
• Macedonian: аналгетик m (analgetik)
• Malay: ubat penahan sakit
• Maori: rongoā whakangaro mamae
• Marathi: वेदनाशामक n (vednāśāmak)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: smertestillende (no) m

• Polish: środek przeciwbólowy m
• Portuguese: analgésico (pt) m
• Romanian: analgezic (ro) n
• Russian: анальге́тик (ru) m (analʹgétik), обезбо́ливающее (ru) n (obezbólivajuščeje), болеутоля́ющее n (boleutoljájuščeje)
• Spanish: analgésico (es) m
• Swahili: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: smärtlindrare c, smärtstillande (sv) c
• Thai: ยาแก้ปวด (yaa-gɛ̂ɛ-bpùuat)
• Tibetan: ན་ཟུག་འཇགས་སྨན (na zug 'jags sman), ན་ཟུག་འཇགས་ཡག་གི་སྨན (na zug 'jags yag gi sman)
• Turkish: ağrı kesen
• Ukrainian: анальге́тик m (analʹhétyk), знебо́лювальне n (znebóljuvalʹne), болезаспокі́йливе n (bolezaspokíjlyve)
• Vietnamese: thuốc giảm đau
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

See also

• analgesic

Further reading

• painkiller on Wikipedia.Wikipedia