Opium

Word OPIUM
Character 5
Hyphenation o pi um
Pronunciations /ˈəʊpi.əm/

Definitions and meanings of "Opium"

What do we mean by opium?

A bitter, yellowish-brown, strongly addictive narcotic drug prepared from the dried latex of unripe pods of the opium poppy and containing alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, and papaverine. noun

Something that numbs or stupefies. noun

The inspissated juice of Papaver somniferum, a poppy cultivated from early antiquity for the sake of this product. See poppy and Papaver. noun

The inspissated juice of the Papaver somniferum, or white poppy. noun

A low resort of opium smokers. noun

A yellow-brown, addictive narcotic drug obtained from the dried juice of unripe pods of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, and containing alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, and papaverine. noun

Anything that numbs or stupefies. noun

An addictive narcotic extracted from seed capsules of the opium poppy noun

A yellow-brown, addictive narcotic drug obtained from the dried juice of unripe pods of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, and containing alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, and papaverine.

Anything that numbs or stupefies.

Opium is a black sticky tar. The "latex" or "sap" that can be harvested from certain species of Poppy plants. It contains over a dozen drugs. To name a few: -Morphine -Codeine -Thebaine -Papaverine By making a few slight scrapes around the mature seed pod, the white latex will beging to drain. In a few hours it will have dried into a black tar. That is the unrefined opium. This process is typically repeated several times. In countries such as Iran, Holland, Romania, and many others, large amounts are harvested for medical purposes. In many other cases it is used for the purpose of creating the illegal substance heroin in mass quantity. Urban Dictionary

Opium is a tar-like drug, most often black in color. It tastes like no other, being made from poppies. It makes you feel like you're floating, yet sinking into your couch. It's amazing: afterall, there was a war over opium... Urban Dictionary

A drug that Edgar Allen Poe used often. This is mentioned in many of his short stories/poems Urban Dictionary

The damned drug that the british sold to the chinese. caused mass addiction and dependence. opium war of the mid-19th century Urban Dictionary

Religion, according to Karl Marx, in that it makes you feel good without actually fixing your problems and may even make matters worse. Urban Dictionary

A drug made when you scrape the seed off the top of a poppy flower and when the liquid turns black that comes out you scrape it off and smoke it Urban Dictionary

A drug, which helps get you high. Mike likes to use it, and uses it several times per day. Urban Dictionary

The best song ever by Marcy Playground Urban Dictionary

A person that is a slow moving dope (therefore like the drug, opium) Urban Dictionary

A Slow moving dope - Eg. Leah Urban Dictionary

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The word "opium" in example sentences

It was difficult to believe that his subjection to opium could much longer resist the stings of his own conscience, and the solicitations of his friends, as well as the pecuniary destitution to which his _opium habits_ had reduced him. ❋ Joseph Cottle (1811)

In any case, the vast bulk of opium is grown in three areas – Wardak, Kandahar and Helmand, where the local control elements, whether Taliban or not, derive power from their drug income. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He was this actor who went out and partied all night, went to bed with three women at once and he hung out in opium dens, and places like that. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Growing opium is legal, btw, at least as far as federal law goes (and as far as growing it ....) .... ❋ Unknown (2010)

If we start buying up the opium from the farmers and burning it, then the supply of opium on the black market falls and so the price goes up. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Could it be that opium is the perfect cinematic drug?" wonders Paul Matwychuk. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Ninety two percent of the world's opium is cultivated in Afghanistan. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Early indications suggest Afghanistan could see a further increase in opium production in 2007, the report said. ❋ Unknown (2007)

After all, in some parts of the world opium is smoked on a regular basis. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Hmm, it seems the battle against opium is not quite as successful as Condi and others would like us to believe. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Afghanistan's principal crop is again opium and the Taliban lurk next door ready to return. ❋ Unknown (2004)

That opium is the base of the three drugs, morphine, heroin and cocaine. ❋ Unknown (1956)

Now, many of you wonder where they get the opium from the poppy head. ❋ Unknown (1956)

The suppression of the traffic in opium and other dangerous drugs which the League of Nations has given such splendid leadership to is a great challenge. ❋ Unknown (1936)

We read further in the article that the Hsichi Company bought opium from the Chinese Government at the rate of 10,000 taels per chest, which it sells to district farmers at 23,000 taels per chest, and these latter retail it to drug-stores or consumers at 27,000 taels per chest. ❋ Ellen Newbold La Motte (1917)

I used to buy opium from the Chinese labor-contractors and from smugglers, and give it to my working people. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)

Like alcohol and tobacco, the word opium does not appear in the ❋ Charles Ebert Orr (1897)

It must be remembered, however, that every man who smokes opium is not what we understand by an "opium-smoker," and that between the man who takes his daily pipe of opium after his supper, and the unhappy opium-slave who reduces himself to imbecility in such dens as I saw in Canton, there is just as much difference as there is in England between the "moderate drinker" and the "habitual drunkard." ❋ Isabella Lucy (1883)

They also smuggled opium from the Dutch settlement of ❋ Henriette McDougall (1851)

As they say [in the hills] of Thailand/[Burma], "Anybody who smokes [more than three] pipes of opium a day is an addict." ❋ Cade (2004)

"[My mouth] tastes like [flowers]. I must have [smoked] some opium." ❋ Indiewendi (2008)

[Cole] was walking around as if he had been [smoking] opium [all night]. ❋ Aub (2005)

don't be [smokin] opium. it's [bad for you]. ❋ Squee1 (2005)

"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of [soulless] conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness." - [Karl Marx], [1844] ❋ Anon (2005)

❋ Bo (2003)

Person 1: Where did my opium go? Person 2: [Mike] [stole] it and now is [smoking] it! ❋ Dan The Man (2004)

[ooooooo] The seasons [come for] oooooopium ❋ Ashley (2005)

Guy 1: Dude, how stupid is she? Guy 2: Dude, its [Leah]...shes opium. Guy 1: [O yeah], [I forgot]. ❋ FreakyFrogThing (2006)

Wow,[shes] really [slow] [D'uh], shes opium ❋ Croberts (2006)

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