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soporific

/sop-uh-rif-ik, soh-puh-/US // ˌsɒp əˈrɪf ɪk, ˌsoʊ pə- //UK // (ˌsɒpəˈrɪfɪk) //

麻醉剂,催眠剂,催眠,麻醉药

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : causing or tending to cause sleep.
    • : pertaining to or characterized by sleep or sleepiness; sleepy; drowsy.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : something that causes sleep, as a medicine or drug.

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Examples

  • Designers will pixel push, frontend engineers will add clicks to make it more difficult to drop out of a soporific Zoom call, but few companies are ever willing to rip out their database storage engine.

  • “Gently rolling hills” roll not-so-gently under my tires, but the English countryside scenery is soporific.

  • A travelogue of the drug-testing labs at Pfizer, Eli Lilly, or GlaxoSmithKline would likely be soporific.

  • Yet Diana, with its soporific romance and awful dialogue, is a colossal bore.

  • Unlike other soporific cabinet secretaries, Homeland Security director is a position people really do care about.

  • The premise is this: turkey is chock-full of a soporific essential amino acid, tryptophan, one of the 22 essential amino acids.

  • To whom the prophetess, seeing his neck now bristle with horrid snakes, flings a soporific cake of honey and medicated grain.

  • There is nothing oratorical in his style of delivery; it is calm, slow, and has a rather soporific influence upon his hearers.

  • From which it appears evident that the actual words used as a soporific allow considerable latitude of choice.

  • I sit dreaming, the rhythmical song and the splashing of the oars exercising a soporific effect.

  • The odor of a smouldering bough of balsam-fir hung in the air—warm, spicy, soporific.