"veronal" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter 29, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "He was by now so worn out that he could not resist my firmness. I gave him a sufficient dose of veronal to insure his unconsciousness for several hours. I thought that was the best service I could render him.",
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          "ref": "1926, Agatha Christie, chapter 1, in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd:",
          "text": "She died of an overdose of veronal. She's been taking it lately for sleeplessness. Must have taken too much.",
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          "ref": "2010 January 28, Michael Hofmann, “Vermicular Dither”, in London Review of Books, volume 32, number 02, →ISSN:",
          "text": "I have seen the Brazilian press photograph of Zweig and Lotte, his second wife, lying dead of their overdoses of veronal on two pushed-together single iron bedsteads, he on his back, mouth a little agape, in a sweat-stained shirt and knitted tie, she on his shoulder in a floral wrap and clean hair, and you can practically hear the ceiling fan going round.",
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        "A barbiturate, used formerly to induce sleep."
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          "sleep",
          "sleep"
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "barbital"
        },
        {
          "word": "diethylmalonyl urea"
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        {
          "word": "diethylbarbituric acid"
        },
        {
          "word": "barbitol"
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        "uncountable"
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        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "barbiturate",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "vearónach"
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          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "veronál",
          "sense": "barbiturate",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "верона́л"
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "barbiturate",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "veronal"
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          "sleep"
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          "word": "barbital"
        },
        {
          "word": "diethylmalonyl urea"
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          "word": "diethylbarbituric acid"
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    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "barbiturate",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vearónach"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "veronál",
      "sense": "barbiturate",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "верона́л"
    },
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "barbiturate",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "veronal"
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