sleeping pill
noun
: a drug and especially a barbiturate that is taken as a tablet or capsule to induce sleep
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Miri withers away in grief and eventually takes her own life by swallowing a nonlethal dose of sleeping pills, tying her legs up with nylon rope, and leaping into the local river.
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Bailey Trela, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
Elvis was a longtime opiate user, having also abused sleeping pills, antihistamines, barbiturates and, lastly, laxatives to treat intense constipation caused by his prescription-grade painkillers.
—Jenzia Burgos, StyleCaster, 9 Oct. 2024
In the kitchen trash were two empty bottles of sleeping pills, Smith said.
—Patrick Smith, NBC News, 4 Sep. 2024
In the book, Greer (Kidman) is actually the one who discovers how Merritt died after overhearing Abby and Thomas fight and realizing that Abby was the one who stole her sleeping pills.
—Sophie Hanson, StyleCaster, 6 Sep. 2024
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Bailey Trela, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
Elvis was a longtime opiate user, having also abused sleeping pills, antihistamines, barbiturates and, lastly, laxatives to treat intense constipation caused by his prescription-grade painkillers.
—Jenzia Burgos, StyleCaster, 9 Oct. 2024
In the kitchen trash were two empty bottles of sleeping pills, Smith said.
—Patrick Smith, NBC News, 4 Sep. 2024
In the book, Greer (Kidman) is actually the one who discovers how Merritt died after overhearing Abby and Thomas fight and realizing that Abby was the one who stole her sleeping pills.
—Sophie Hanson, StyleCaster, 6 Sep. 2024
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“Sleeping pill.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sleeping%20pill. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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