Translations for „soporific“ in the Portuguese » English Dictionary

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sonífero MED

soporific

soporífero (-a)

soporific

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English

The drugs commonly used to combat motion sickness, such as scopolamine and promethazine, have soporific effects.

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Newspapers continue to print frequent updates on the so-called global sleep crisis and publishers are churning out a soporific selection of insomnia self-help books.

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Treatment for insomnia in psychiatry dates back to 1869 when chloral hydrate was first used as a soporific.

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To a human ear, the sounds are otherworldly and at times soporific.

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Describing a phrase as a bromide is meant humorously to imply that it is a verbal sedative: a boring statement with similar soporific properties.

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Such performances, in the more relaxing hills to the south, were soporific.

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Only the soporific drone of the bingo caller disturbs the silence that reigns over the dim, sparsely filled hall.

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He claimed to be in control of his own usage, principally as a soporific, which reached as high as 1,000 drops.

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It makes you itch for a blue pencil to knock out all the intensified words that maintain the soporific flow link added.

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The language of mainstream politics has a soporific effect.

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