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Recent Examples of relaxant
Ashwagandha comes with natural relaxant properties to calm down your mind and recharge your brain.
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Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2023
Perhaps most interesting is its airway relaxant potential in the treatment of asthma [2].
—Alice Chi Phung, Discover Magazine, 24 June 2014
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Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2023
Perhaps most interesting is its airway relaxant potential in the treatment of asthma [2].
—Alice Chi Phung, Discover Magazine, 24 June 2014
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for relaxant
Adjective
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Saltz: Lorazepam is in the class of medications called benzodiazepines, which is a depressant, and also sometimes referred to as a sedative hypnotic medication.—
Ben Tinker,
CNN Money,
30 Mar. 2025
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In any case, chamomile flowers—which look like adorable, tiny daisies—contain flavonoids, terpenoids, and coumarins which certainly have mildly sedative, anti-inflammatory, and antispasmodic properties.—
Valentina Bottoni,
Vogue,
23 Oct. 2024
Adjective
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Toon is made by dipping paper into a liquid narcotic drug and drying it.—
Jim Woods,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Aug. 2025
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Robotic surgery reduces recovery time to four weeks with a lifting limit of 20 pounds and only three narcotic pills.—
Shelley Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
30 July 2025
Adjective
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According to a report, the man died after not receiving the proper care for his ALS and opiate withdrawal.—
Emilia Otte,
Hartford Courant,
20 June 2025
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Toward the end of Thursday’s questioning, the defense asked Ventura about the 2016 InterContinental hotel freak-off, where the video of Combs beating Ventura in a hallway came from, and tried to indicate Combs was going through opiate withdrawal at the time, The New York Times reported.—
Conor Murray,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2025
Adjective
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Under the hypnotic spell of singer María Zardoya, whose breathy delivery is part comforting whisper, part secretive rasp, the jazzy dream-pop band used a dusk time slot to seamlessly soundtrack different visions: hiding in a room alone, running into an ex, lusting after a lover.—
Althea Legaspi,
Rolling Stone,
4 Aug. 2025
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For the lip, Freedman and Zeta-Jones settled on a deep plum shade, one as equally hypnotic as the colors on her eyes.—
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
30 July 2025
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“Relaxant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/relaxant. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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