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veronal

1. A barbiturate, diethylmalonyl urea or diethylbarbituric acid; barbitol. An older drug used to induce sleepfulness.

She died of an overdose of veronal. She's been taking it lately for sleeplessness. Must have taken too much. --Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Chapter 1.

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