The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word MEDICINE
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More clues leading to the result MEDICINE
- Italian family gets nearly-new drug
- Setter’s admitting alcoholic drink knocked back without end is drug
- Brief order to stop working
- Treatment pronounced, as if I wasn’t there
- Drug family once famous in Europe’s eastern parts
- Mediterranean setter with nice new vocation?
- Practice for a GP?
- This person’s clutching short order for something from pharmacy
- Curtailed order entering pit to get drug
- Endemic mess encompassing one treatment
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What does MEDICINE mean?
MEDICINE noun- A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way.
- A treatment or cure.
- The study of the cause, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease or illness.
- The profession of physicians, surgeons and related specialisms; those who practice medicine.
- Ritual magic used, as by a medicine man, to promote a desired outcome in healing, hunting, warfare etc.
- Among the Native Americans, any object supposed to give control over natural or magical forces, to act as a protective charm, or to cause healing.
- Black magic, superstition.
- A philter or love potion.
- A physician.
- Recreational drugs, especially alcoholic drinks.
- To treat with medicine.