English
Etymology
From pain + killer.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpeɪnˌkɪlə(ɹ)/
Noun
painkiller (plural painkillers)
- (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.
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
- Persian: مسکن (fa) (mosakken)
- 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
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