sleeping pill
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2.9
- noun
- /ˈsliːpɪŋ pɪl/
:
somnífero
- After tossing and turning for hours, I finally took a sleeping pill to help me rest.
- take sleeping pills
- overdose of sleeping pills
- prescribe sleeping pills
I went through depressions, took sleeping pills, you know, so my head wasn't in the right.
- I went through depressions, took sleeping pills, you know, so my head wasn't in the right.
- And I was home for maybe six weeks, took an overdose of sleeping pills, but survived.
- I'm too much when I'm not on some kind of sleeping pill, so maybe this is good.
- And she's like, no, she she overdosed on sleeping pills.
- You're more likely to die of any 'cause if you take more than three sleeping pills a year, which is ridiculous.
- I've been debating taking a load of sleeping pills so that I never wake up again.
- I took a sleeping pill that night because I wasn't able to sleep for like days.
- I found out he was crushing ambien and other sleeping pills and adding it to my drinks and yes, that made me more compliant in all the ways he wanted.
- And I laid there and I was taking sleeping pills constantly just so I didn't have to be awake because that's the only time I wasn't in pain when I was sleeping.
- But their recommendation was that they found, I think their wording was small and of questionable clinical importance in terms of the benefits of sleeping pills.
- I'm I'm literally shoveling sleeping pills out the door.
- These people are making drugs, sleeping pills, supplements, and they're just Youtubers.
- Booze pills, sleeping pills, whatever you can kind of do to numb it out.
Examples
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We'll add some sleeping pills to the regimen.
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I have here a prescription for sleeping pills, George.
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l gave her one of my sleeping pills.
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I was on sleeping pills until I was 17...
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I am taking one large sleeping pill and going to bed.
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Are three sleeping pills enough?
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I have sleeping pills with me just like every other passenger on board.
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Ed takes the sleeping pills from the medicine cabinet and takes two more.
Fiction book (2000) -
I'm going to take a sleeping pill now and go to bed.
Fiction book (1992) -
I took a sleeping pill that night because I wasn't able to sleep for like days.
Synonyms
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A prescription medicine that helps people sleep
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A small pill that helps you sleep
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A liquid medicine that makes you sleep
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7.1
A medicine that makes you sleep or helps you stay asleep
A small pill that you take to help you sleep
A medicine a doctor prescribes to help people sleep
A medicine that calms the brain, reduces worry, and makes you sleep
How Sedating
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- NSFW
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a tablet taken to help someone fall asleep' is directly and compositionally derived from 'sleeping' (relating to sleep) + 'pill' (a small tablet). This is a transparent noun–noun compound following a common cross-linguistic pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Sleeping pill is a simple, direct name: it is a small pill that causes sleeping, so the phrase means 'a medicine to help someone fall asleep'.