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Meanings of hypnotic in English
Class of psychoactive drugs whose primary function is to induce sleep and to be used in the treatment of insomnia (sleeplessness), or for surgical anesthesia.
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Examples for "hypnotics"
Examples for "hypnotics"
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The highest SIRs were found among the youngest users for all hypnotics.
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Nervousness, sleeplessness and pain are suppressed by sedatives, opiates and hypnotics.
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Its breezy hypnotics are perfect for the hypoxia of space.
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We avoid all anodynes, hypnotics, sedatives, antipyretics, laxatives, cathartics, etc.
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Sensory-deprivation para-hypnotics or some such external procedure't'create similar conditions.
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She could barely keep her eyes open, the men had injected her with some soporific drug.
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I also took one sleeping pill and smoked three Camel Light cigarettes.
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You are going to eat something, relax, and take a sleeping pill.
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He looks at the sleeping pill, debates, then gives her a shake.
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She needed her sleeping pill if she wanted any hope of dozing off.
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She was probably after a sleeping pill or glass of water.
Attracting and holding interest as if by a spell.
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Usage of hypnotic in English
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The effect, as my example suggests, can be quite hypnotic or doom-laden.
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The fundamental principle of the hypnotic state lies in its selective character.
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At that point, Diane, I brought her out of the hypnotic state.
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Diane, log the following tape as first hypnotic event, subject Caroline Earle.
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Background: Pregnancy is associated with decreased hypnotic requirement, allegedly related to progesterone.
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The next step is the acquisition of the hypnotic state, per se.
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As first impressions went Jamie found looking at the acrobats almost hypnotic.
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The room enveloped her with a hypnotic sense of calm and warmth.
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They stood on the bridge and listened to the rhythmic hypnotic knocking.
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This year's performance is oddly hypnotic, AND it's got a water feature.
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He's hammy: he crosses a line into a kind of hypnotic absurdity.
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Steel structural columns sit inside the wraparound glass, creating hypnotic vertical lines.
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Ululations, hypnotic African and techno, trance sounds filter through a smoke-filled stage.
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Sawyer was just completing the passes used to break the hypnotic influence.
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In the next chapter, you'll learn how to deepen the self-hypnotic state.
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Their debut album, released in June, proved just as haunting and hypnotic.
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Translations for hypnotic
Portuguese
Hypnotic through the time
Hypnotic across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
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