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View synonyms for sleeping pill
sleeping pill
noun
a pill or capsule containing a drug for inducing sleep.
sleeping pill
noun
a pill or tablet containing a sedative drug, such as a barbiturate, used to induce sleep
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sleeping pill1
First recorded in 1940–45
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Rotraut crushed up a sleeping pill, put some of the powder into a bottle, and fed it to her baby son, Andre.
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Hanifa says she bought them at a pharmacy, saying she wanted sleeping pills for herself.
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Luis developed a rash, but at the medical clinic he was given allergy medication and sleeping pills.
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Six tablets of a sleeping pill were recovered in a strip of 10.
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“It made me ill. Even sleeping pills didn’t work.”
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