verb
- causing to fall asleep or become drowsy; making sleepy
Usage: archaic; literary
Examples
- The sopiting effect of the warm milk helped the child drift off to sleep.
- The doctor prescribed a sopiting remedy for the patient’s insomnia.
- The sopiting herbs in the tea made her eyelids heavy.
- His sopiting voice had a calming influence on the restless audience.
- The sopiting properties of the medication were well-documented.
- She found the sopiting rhythm of the rain on the roof soothing.