Deadening; causing apathy or dullness.
Soporific; inducing sleep or sedation.
Relating to, resembling, or containing opium.
A drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium.
Something that dulls the senses and induces a false and unrealistic sense of contentment.
To treat with an opiate drug.
Minimising the progression of a disease and relieving undesirable symptoms for as long as possible, rather than attempting to cure the (usually incurable) disease.
Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.
Something that palliates, particularly a palliative medicine.