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1 sleeping pills
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2 sleeping-pill / sleeping-tablet
nouns (a kind of pill that can be taken to make one sleep: She tried to commit suicide by swallowing an overdose of sleeping-pills.) somnifère -
3 handful
handful [ˈhændfʊl]a. poignée f* * *['hændfʊl]1) ( fistful) poignée f2) ( small number) ( of people) poignée f; (of buildings, objects, works) petit nombre m3) (colloq) (person, animal) -
4 insomnia
[in'somniə](inability to sleep: She takes sleeping-pills as she suffers from insomnia.) insomnie -
5 overdose
['əuvədous](too great an amount (of medicine): an overdose of sleeping-pills.) surdose -
6 pill
[pil](a small ball or tablet of medicine, to be swallowed: She took a pill; sleeping-pills.) pilule -
7 dependent
dependent [dɪ'pendənt]∎ to be dependent on sb/sth dépendre de qn/qch;∎ he became increasingly dependent on his children il devenait de plus en plus dépendant de ses enfants;∎ she's financially dependent on her parents elle dépend financièrement ou elle est à la charge de ses parents;∎ Administration he has two dependent children il a deux enfants à charge;∎ to be dependent on heroin/drugs être héroïnomane/toxicomane;∎ she's heavily dependent on sleeping pills elle ne peut se passer de somnifères∎ to be dependent on sth dépendre de qch;∎ their economy is highly dependent on foreign investment leur économie dépend énormément des investissements étrangers;∎ the prosperity of his business was dependent on the continuation of the war la prospérité de son entreprise dépendait ou était tributaire de la poursuite de la guerre;∎ her father's consent to the wedding was dependent on the young man's success son père a donné son assentiment au mariage à condition que le jeune homme réussisse2 nounGrammar subordonnée f -
8 overdose
∎ to take an overdose (of hard drugs) faire une overdose;∎ an overdose of sleeping pills une dose massive de somnifères;∎ she died from a drugs overdose elle est morte d'une overdose(b) figurative dose f;∎ humorous I think I've had an overdose of culture today je crois que j'ai eu ma dose de culture pour aujourd'hui['əʊvədəʊs] prendre une dose massive; (on hard drugs) prendre une overdose;∎ he overdosed on heroin/LSD il a pris une overdose d'héroïne/de LSD;∎ humorous I've been overdosing on chocolate recently j'ai trop forcé sur le chocolat ces derniers temps
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