Associations to the word «Chloroform»

Wiktionary

CHLOROFORM, noun. (chemistry) A halogenated hydrocarbon, trichloromethane, CHCl3; it is a volatile, sweet-smelling liquid, used extensively as a solvent and formerly as an anesthetic.
CHLOROFORM, verb. To treat with chloroform, or to render unconscious with chloroform.

Dictionary definition

CHLOROFORM, noun. A volatile liquid haloform (CHCl3); formerly used as an anesthetic; "chloroform was the first inhalation anesthetic".
CHLOROFORM, verb. Anesthetize with chloroform; "Doctors used to put people under by chloroforming them".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats