adormecer
Meaning
- (intransitive) to fall asleep (to pass from a state of wakefulness into sleep)
- (intransitive) to oversleep
- (transitive) to send somebody to sleep, to lull to sleep
- (transitive) to anesthetize
- (figuratively, transitive) to soothe, to relieve
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/a.doʁ.meˈse(ʁ)/
Etymology
In summary
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese adormecer, from Latin addormīscere. Compare Galician and Spanish adormecer.
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