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Meanings of sleeping draught in English

Catalan
somnífer

A soporific drug in the form of a pill (or tablet or capsule)

somnífer
Synonyms
Examples for "sleeping pill"
Examples for "sleeping pill"
1
I also took one sleeping pill and smoked three Camel Light cigarettes.
Mass casualties: a young medic's true story of death, deception,...
2
You are going to eat something, relax, and take a sleeping pill.
House of Bathory
3
He looks at the sleeping pill, debates, then gives her a shake.
Black house
4
She needed her sleeping pill if she wanted any hope of dozing off.
The perfect woman
5
She was probably after a sleeping pill or glass of water.
The big bite
1
I eagerly accepted a sleeping tablet each night from the guard.
Somewhere inside
2
The nurse convinced me to take a half a sleeping tablet that night.
News.com.au
3
They don't give any junk, not even a sleeping tablet.
Junky
4
Now, sweetie, turn off the TV, take your Tegretol, take a sleeping tablet -shit, take two sleeping tablets -and I'll be back tomorrow.
The death of bunny munro: a novel
5
Gardaí have seized €42,000 worth of the sleeping tablet Zopiclone in a planned search of a premises in Dublin's north inner city.
The Irish Times
1
It was a network of vaulted hallways, each lined with coffin-shaped sleeping capsules, row after row of them, stacked to the ceiling, ten high.
Ready Player One
Usage of sleeping draught in English
1
A sleeping draught in his evening wine would be the wiser course.
Dangerous Women
2
We'll give the two of them a sleeping draught in their drink.
Martin Hyde, the Duke's Messenger
3
The words of Tatho were no sleeping draught for me that night.
The Lost Continent
4
At bedtime a cup of strawberry tea-that is as a sleeping draught.
Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends
5
I'll let him give you a sleeping draught, then ask him to leave.
The crimson petal and the white
6
During recent bouts of pain, I had been ordered a sleeping draught-ChloralHydrate.
And Then There Were None
7
Nobody must see him; I've just given him his sleeping draught.
The Innocence of Father Brown
8
I mixed him a sleeping draught with his whisky and soda.
The Great Impersonation
9
You were signing his book for a sleeping draught, I think.
The Tempting of Tavernake
10
My doctor gave me a sleeping draught, a strong concoction of his own devising.
The street philosopher
11
Nay: who gave her the sleeping draught the last night?
The House of Walderne / A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in...
12
You must sleep, or you will knock up; let me give you a sleeping draught.'
The History of David Grieve
13
It was a powerful sleeping draught, and soon the girl's brain was under its subjection.
Till the Clock Stops
14
But at dinner she broke out, Well, give me your church for a sleeping draught.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 / A Magazi...
15
In the end, he was forced to confide in Rullus and ask for a sleeping draught.
Roma Victrix
16
The power of the sleeping draught was over.
Stories from the Ballads, Told to the Children
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Translations for sleeping draught
Catalan
somnífer
Sleeping draught through the time
Sleeping draught across language varieties
United Kingdom
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