(~s)
1.
Bromide is a drug which used to be given to people to calm their nerves when they were worried or upset.
...a dose of ~.
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2.
A ~ is a comment which is intended to calm someone down when they are angry, but which has been expressed so often that it has become boring and meaningless. (FORMAL)
The meeting produced the usual ~s about macroeconomic policy, third-world debt and the environment.
= platitude
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