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COLD MEDICINE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cold medicine mean?
• COLD MEDICINE (noun)
The noun COLD MEDICINE has 1 sense:
1. medicine intended to relieve the symptoms of the common cold
Familiarity information: COLD MEDICINE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Medicine intended to relieve the symptoms of the common cold
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("cold medicine" is a kind of...):
medicament; medication; medicinal drug; medicine ((medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease)
Context examples
EXAMPLE(S): Administration of cold medicine may be evaluated as a cause of an adverse event.
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