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əˈrɪfadjective
1.
causing or tending to cause sleep.
2.
pertaining to or characterized by sleep or sleepiness; sleepy; drowsy.
noun
3.
something that causes sleep, as a medicine or drug.
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soporific
1690, from Fr. soporifique (1687), formed in Fr. from L. sopor (gen. soporis) "deep sleep," from a causative form of the PIE base *swep- "to sleep" (see somnolence).
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soporific sop·o·rif·ic (sŏp'ə-rĭf'ĭk, sō'pə-)
adj.
Inducing or tending to induce sleep.
Sleepy; drowsy.
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