: to treat with or as if with chloroform especially so as to produce anesthesia, insensibility, or death
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When the Scottish obstetrician James Young Simpson began to give ether, and later chloroform, to laboring women in 1847, he was met with strong pushback, even as anesthesia was largely embraced for use in surgery. Stephanie H. Murray, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2022 The documentary showed how, in 1978, Jeffrey Rignall was lured into Gacy’s car where he was hit in the face with a rag soaked in chloroform. Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 21 Apr. 2022 As part of the process to capture HFC-23, about 1,600 pounds a year of chloroform, hydrochloric acid, chlorine and hydrogen fluoride, all hazardous air pollutants, could be emitted into neighborhoods around its Louisville facility. From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 24 Nov. 2021 While Queen Victoria swears by chloroform, Mama Dickinson insists Sue needs no drugs. Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2021 Soldiers on the operating table were sedated by chloroform, which worked well, Zervos said. Carole Carlson, chicagotribune.com, 28 Sep. 2021 Dioxin, cadmium, benzene, lead, naphthalene, nitrous oxide, sulfur dioxide, arsenic, furans, trichlorobenzene, chloroform, asbestos, mercury, phthalates: these are some of the by-products of papermaking. Rosemary Mcclure, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2021 Dioxin, cadmium, benzene, lead, naphthalene, nitrous oxide, sulfur dioxide, arsenic, furans, trichlorobenzene, chloroform, asbestos, mercury, phthalates: these are some of the by-products of papermaking. Rosemary Mcclure, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2021 Dioxin, cadmium, benzene, lead, naphthalene, nitrous oxide, sulfur dioxide, arsenic, furans, trichlorobenzene, chloroform, asbestos, mercury, phthalates: these are some of the by-products of papermaking. Rosemary Mcclure, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2021
Verb
Donor insemination continued largely underground, sans chloroform, until the 1950s. Caitlin Harrington, Wired, 30 July 2020 See More
Word History
Etymology
Noun
French chloroforme, from chlor- + formyle formyl; from its having been regarded as a trichloride of this group