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placebos

placebos is the plural of placebo.

Meaning of placebo

Noun

placebo (plural placebos or placeboes)

  1. A dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment.
    • The acid test, I thought, was whether homeopathic remedies behave differently from placebos when submitted to clinical trials.2010 February 22, Edzard Ernst, “No to homeopathy placebo”, in The Guardian
  2. The vespers sung in the office for the dead.
    • There the placebo, the office for the dead, was sung, and a vigil kept throughout the night.2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 349

Questions about placebos

What is placebos the plural of?
Placebos is the plural of placebo.

Words near placebos in the dictionary

  1. placebogenic
  2. placebolike
  3. placebology
  4. placebome
  5. placebomes
  6. placebos
  7. placed
  8. placed on a pedestal
  9. placed one's cards on the table
  10. placedst
  11. placeful

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