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veronal (uncountable)

1. A barbiturate, used formerly to induce sleep.

   Synonyms: barbital, diethylmalonyl urea, diethylbarbituric acid, barbitol

   • 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter 29, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:

     He was by now so worn out that he could not resist my firmness. I gave him a sufficient dose of veronal to insure his unconsciousness for several hours. I thought that was the best service I could render him.

   • 1926, Agatha Christie, chapter 1, in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd:

     She died of an overdose of veronal. She's been taking it lately for sleeplessness. Must have taken too much.

   • 2010 January 28, Michael Hofmann, “Vermicular Dither”, in London Review of Books‎, volume 32, number 02, →ISSN:

     I have seen the Brazilian press photograph of Zweig and Lotte, his second wife, lying dead of their overdoses of veronal on two pushed-together single iron bedsteads, he on his back, mouth a little agape, in a sweat-stained shirt and knitted tie, she on his shoulder in a floral wrap and clean hair, and you can practically hear the ceiling fan going round.

派生語

• veronalism

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Further reading

• barbital on Wikipedia.Wikipedia