0 a clear liquid with a sweet smell that makes you unconscious if you breathe it in
1 to make someone unconscious using chlorofom:
Formerly we were obliged either to administer chloroform or ether, or subject our patients to a great deal of suffering.
He took a small bottle of chloroform out of his pocket, and putting a drop on a handkerchief held it near the child's face, till the drug soothed the convulsive struggle.
It was chloroform he wanted to dull the pain that dressing his severed nerves entailed.
When the breathing appears difficult, cease the application of the chloroform.
They chloroformed dogs, used an ingenious little apparatus, which had been used before, but had been perfected, for uniting the intestines, and they started experimenting.
What we are really doing is that we are engaged in chloroforming a large part of the body politic which is suffering from a terrible complaint.
The immediate benefit they are to get has chloroformed them, and instead of being a house united they have in the last fortnight become a house divided.
