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sleeping draught

noun

Definitions

  1. A liquid medicine that induces sleep.

    • In the evening, when the princess came and brought him his drink, he made appear as if he drank, but he threw it over his shoulder, for he felt sure she had put a sleeping draught in his drink.
    • 'My wife always takes a sleeping draught when travelling by train. She took her usual dose of trional.'

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