1. A clear, colorless, heavy, sweet-smelling liquid, CHCl3, used in refrigerants, propellants, and resins, as a solvent, and sometimes as an anesthetic. chloroform, once widely used in human and veterinary surgery, has generally been replaced by less toxic, more easily controlled agents.
2. to treat with chloroform to anesthetize, render unconscious, or kill.
3. to apply chloroform to.

1. A halogenated hydrocarbon, trichloromethane, CHCl3; it is a volatile, sweet-smelling liquid, used extensively as a solvent and formerly as an anesthetic.
2. to treat with chloroform, or to render unconscious with chloroform.

1. A colorless volatile liquid, CHCl3, having an ethereal odor and a sweetish taste, formed by treating alcohol with chlorine and an alkali. it is a powerful solvent of wax, resin, etc., and is extensively used to produce anæsthesia in surgical operations; also externally, to alleviate pain.
2. to treat with chloroform, or to place under its influence.

1. to subject to the influence of chloroform; administer chloroform to, for the purpose of inducing anæsthesia, unconsciousness, or death.
2. Trichlormethane, or formyl trichlorid (CHCl3); a volatile colorless liquid, of an agreeable sweetish taste and fragrant smell, and having the specific gravity 1.48.

1. a volatile liquid haloform (CHCl3); formerly used as an anesthetic
2. anesthetize with chloroform