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Smelling Salts (Noun)

Meaning

A pungent preparation of ammonium carbonate and perfume; sniffed as a stimulant to relieve faintness.

Classification

Nouns denoting substances.

Examples

  • She carried a vial of smelling salts in her purse, just in case she needed to revive herself in the midst of a social gathering.
  • After witnessing the intense duel, Lady Catherine swooned and had to be revived with smelling salts.
  • During the performance, one of the dancers felt dizzy and her colleagues immediately rushed her some smelling salts to revive her.
  • To calm his frazzled nerves before the exam, Tom inhaled the fumes from the bottle of smelling salts he found in the principal's office.
  • To wake the coach driver, the postillion fetched some smelling salts and administered a gentle sniff, startling him awake from his somnambulistic slumber.

Hypernyms

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