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.

   Synonyms: PK (initialism, informal), analgesic (noun)

   Near-synonym: analgesia

   • 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.

Related terms

• painkilling

Translations

a drug that numbs the pain in the body

• Afrikaans: pynstiller
• Arabic: ضِدَّ الأَلَم m (ḍidda l-ʔalam), مُسَكِّن (ar) m (musakkin)
• 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
• Georgian: ტკივილგამაყუჩებელი (ṭḳivilgamaq̇učebeli), ტკივილგამაყუჩებელი საშუალება (ṭḳivilgamaq̇učebeli sašualeba)
• 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 (adjective)

Further reading

• painkiller on Wikipedia.Wikipedia