chloroform

noun

1. (uncountable)A halogenated hydrocarbon, trichloromethane, CHCl₃; it is a volatile, sweet-smelling liquid, used extensively as a solvent and formerly as an anesthetic.

   “Some assume that chloroform is a gas because it was given by inhalation.”

verb

1. (transitive)To treat, or to render unconscious, with chloroform.

   “Geoffrey was first chloroformed, I think. The hand that picked Nipper up to dispose of him had certainly touched chloroform just before. Drugged; does that bring us nearer by taking us further away, I wonder?”