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Definition of sleeping draught in English: sleeping draughtnoun British dated A drink or drug intended to induce sleep. Example sentencesExamples - ‘I fear that either the tea or the tonic has been mixed with a sleeping draught,’ she yawned.
- The message is that alcohol is a useless sleeping draft in the long run.
- I will give you a sleeping draught, which you are to take, and then in a week or so when you wake up we may discuss the Guild and the smugglers.
- I know this man who can make a nice sleeping draught for you.
- And as for this soldier, even if I had not given him his sleeping draught, he would have slept soundly enough.
- Maybe you should try a sleeping draught or something…
- John has sourced wonderful grapefruit for breakfast and provides a wee dram as a sleeping draft.
- Paul gave me a sleeping draught for him to have when he wakes.
- I hit him with an arrow tipped in a sleeping draught to knock him out for a brief while so we could kill him.
- She cannot sleep so she asks Seward for a sleeping draught, then, after taking it, doubts that she did the right thing in denying herself the ability to wake if need be.
Synonyms drug, narcotic, mind-altering drug, sedative, tranquillizer, depressant, sleeping pill, soporific, anaesthetic, painkiller, analgesic, anodyne
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