potion

noun

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a drink that is meant to have a special or magical effect on someone a potion that is supposed to improve health The hero in the play is given a magic potion so that he will fall in love with the princess. medical potions sleeping potions

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Recent Examples of potion In the first game, saving one’s data could be done in only three ways: sleeping in a bed, drinking a Savior Schnapps potion, and triggering an autosave during pivotal points in the story or a quest. — George Yang, Rolling Stone, 3 Feb. 2025 Previously announced with the working title of Abadi Nan Jaya, the film tells the story of a potion that ends up triggering a zombie outbreak due to the ambition of a herbal medicine company’s owner. — Sara Merican, Deadline, 4 Feb. 2025 Enter the mysterious potion of the title, which allows Elisabeth to birth a younger, more nubile version of herself (Margaret Qualley). — Melena Ryzik, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025 The potion, along with a drop or two of lion’s blood, brings him back to life after being pronounced dead. — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for potion
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  1. drug
  2. medication
  3. medicine
  4. remedy
  5. cure
  6. tonic
  7. pill
Noun
  • The intrigue: Is the rising use of weight-loss drugs causing people to snack less?
    — Nathan Bomey, Axios, 22 Mar. 2025
  • President Claudia Sheinbaum early this month stressed that to stop the flow of drugs into the United States, the U.S. must address gun smuggling.
    — Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2025
Definition of drug
Noun
  • Integrative Approaches To Anxiety, Depression, and PTSD Mental health disorders such as anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are often treated with medication and therapy.
    — Jesse Pines, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Common pain medication could reduce cancer spread, study finds.
    — Fox News, Fox News, 12 Mar. 2025
Definition of medication
Noun
  • All of this — new medicines, new jobs, new opportunities for kids — is too important to lose.
    — Megan Barkdull, Orlando Sentinel, 16 Mar. 2025
  • Although the secretary of state and Elon Musk have assured the public that the new administration’s actions have not disrupted the distribution of life-saving medicine, that just isn’t true.
    — John Green, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2025
Definition of medicine
Noun
  • The National Immigrant Justice Center and the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois filed a motion in Chicago’s U.S. District Court Thursday seeking the release of two people still detained and the enforcement of remedies to prevent unlawful arrests by ICE.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Capital One and Discover are rebounding from Monday’s decline as investors weigh the possibility of remedies if, in fact, the Department of Justice tries to block the merger.
    — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 18 Mar. 2025
Definition of remedy
Noun
  • Join 41 others in the comments View Comments If so, the bar for buying into a cure for a new condition should be raised.
    — Andrea Kane, CNN, 17 Mar. 2025
  • For billions of people, TB is already a nightmare disease, both because the bacterium is unusually powerful and because world leaders have done a poor job of distributing cures.
    — John Green, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2025
Definition of cure
Noun
  • Coca-Cola was originally used as a nerve and brain tonic and a medical elixir.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Many will overcome their fears that the technology will replace them and accept it as a tonic to their stresses.
    — Gene Marks, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
Definition of tonic
Noun
  • Remember the $500 toilet seat and $20 aspirin pill that corporations charged the government?
    — Gary Franks, Hartford Courant, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Police allegedly found two loaded guns, approximately 120 pills of hydrocodone, 22 Xanax pills and marijuana.
    — Diane J. Cho, People.com, 15 Mar. 2025
Definition of pill

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