Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To stupefy; make sleepy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To lay or put to sleep; to stupefy.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb obsolete To lay or put to sleep; to stupefy.

Etymologies

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Latin soporatus, p.p. or soporare to put to sleep, from sopor a heavy sleep.

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