"chloroform" in the noun sense
1. chloroform, trichloromethane
a volatile liquid haloform (CHCl3 formerly used as an anesthetic
"chloroform was the first inhalation anesthetic"
"chloroform" in the verb sense
1. chloroform
anesthetize with chloroform
"Doctors used to put people under by chloroforming them"
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