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Noun: bromide  'brow,mId
  1. Any of the salts of hydrobromic acid; formerly used as a sedative but now generally replaced by safer drugs
     
  2. A trite or obvious remark
    - platitude, cliché, banality, commonplace

Derived forms: bromides

Type of: comment, halide, input, remark, truism

Encyclopedia: Bromide, Oklahoma