Noun: adrenaline
| Singular | adrenaline |
| Plural | adrenalines |
Sample Sentences
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Some people bungee jump to feel alive through the surge of adrenaline.
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May be it's not as heavy as he thought, or may be he's on adrenaline overdrive. [1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 361:]
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Despite the crisis, the adrenaline that must have been feeding his own alarm, Tim managed to maintain his control and spoke in a subdued tone, assuring the tenderman and all of us that things would be okay. [2017, Dave Atcheson, Dead Reckoning, →ISBN:]
Nouns inflected like adrenaline
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
3. Proto-Italic *ad
4. Proto-Italic *ad-
5. Latin ad-bor.
6. English ad-
7. Latin rēn
8. Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
9. Proto-Indo-European *-is
10. Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?
11. Proto-Italic *-ālis
12. Latin -ālis
13. Late Latin rēnālislbor.
14. English renal
15. English adrenal
16. Proto-Indo-European *-nós
17. Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
18. Proto-Italic *-īnos
19. Latin -īnusder.
20. Old French -inbor.
21. Middle English -in
22. English -ine
23. English adrenaline
24. From adrenal + -ine, coined by Japanese chemist Takamine Jōkichi in 1901.
Verbs referencing "adrenaline"
Dutch Nouns
adrenaline, Catalan Nouns
adrenalina, Spanish Nouns
adrenalina, Finnish Nouns
adrenaliini, French Nouns
adrénaline, Irish Nouns
aidréanailín, Latvian Nouns
adrenalīns.