Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
Belladonna or a similar soporific plant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A sleeping-potion, especially one made from belladonna.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, countable, uncountable
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noun
A torpor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, dialectal, uncountable
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noun
A bugbear.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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verb
To mutter deliriously.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
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History
From Middle English dwale (“stupor; deception; delusion, evil”), from Old English dwala, dwola (“error, heresy; doubt; madman, deceiver, heretic”) and Old Norse dvala (“sleep, stupor”).
From Middle English dwalen, from Old English dwalian, from Proto-Germanic *dwalōną, from Proto-Indo-European *dhwelH- (“to make turbid”).
