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View synonyms for sleeping pill

sleeping pill

noun

  1. a pill or capsule containing a drug for inducing sleep.


sleeping pill

noun

  1. a pill or tablet containing a sedative drug, such as a barbiturate, used to induce sleep
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of sleeping pill1

First recorded in 1940–45
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Example Sentences

Just a few months after Epstein's death from an accidental sleeping pills overdose, The Beatles formed Apple Corps, which they hoped would protect their financial interests.

From BBC

I suppose I could have avoided those moonlight bathroom trips with a sleeping pill, but that would have only masked the bigger problem: I wanted to quit drinking and couldn’t.

Defense Department report finds Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson made sexual comments, drank alcohol and took sleeping pills on duty as White House doctor.

GPs can also offer medication, mainly sleeping pills zopiclone and zolpidem, but these are not recommended for use for more than four weeks due how quickly they become ineffective and the chances of forming dependency.

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Instead, doctors treated individual symptoms, prescribing headache medicine, antidepressants and sleeping pills.

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