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Narcosis

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A condition of deep stupor or unconsciousness produced by a drug or other chemical substance.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Unconsciousness caused by a drug, anaesthetic or other chemical substance.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. Privation of sense or consciousness, due to a narcotic.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. In pathology, the stupefying effect of a narcotic; narcotism.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. unconsciousness induced by narcotics or anesthesia

Word Usage

"And everything is swathed in glove leather and Alcantara, trimmed in a choice of three varieties of wood, bezeled in well-crafted aluminum brightwork and bathed in a kind of narcosis of ambient light."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

unconsciousness

Cross Reference

nussbaum's narcosis medullary narcosis

Hyponym

nitrogen narcosis

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