chloral hydrate

1. 1.

   a colorless crystalline drug used as a sedative; irritates the stomach and can be addictive

   Broadersedative

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Questions about chloral hydrate

What does chloral hydrate mean?

chloral hydrate means "a colorless crystalline drug used as a sedative; irritates the stomach and can be addictive".

Is chloral hydrate a common word?

chloral hydrate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.