lullverb [ T ]
uk/lʌl/us/lʌl/to cause someone to feel calm or to feel that they want to sleep:
The motion of the car almost lulled her to sleep.
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Calming and relaxing
- assuage
- balls-to-the-wall
- bask
- bread
- bread and circuses idiom
- calm
- chill
- humour
- lie down
- lighten sth up
- lighten up
- lull sb into sth
- make yourself at home idiom
- relaxation
- settle
- slow down
- soften
- steady
- take things easy idiom
- take/need a cold shower idiom
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Phrasal verb(s)
lull sb into sth
lullnoun [ C ]
uk/lʌl/us/lʌl/a short period of calm in which little happens:
There has been a lull in the fighting.
a lull in the conversation/traffic
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Pauses & interludes
- abeyance
- adjourn
- break
- break-journey
- caesura
- coffee break
- comfort stop
- hiatus
- interlude
- intermission
- interval
- lapse
- moratorium
- pause
- postpone
- respite
- stop
- stoppage
- suspension
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Idiom(s)
the lull before the storm