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Definition of lulling : of Lull

Synonyms:

quietening, unalarming

hushing, reconciling, conciliating, stabilizing, mollifying, ebbing, defusing, softening, moderating, smoothing

assuaging, alleviating, relieving, consoling, helping, curing, appeasing, easing, comforting, aiding, remedying

shushing, muting, silencing

subduing

pacifying, stilling, allaying, placating, quelling, composing, tranquilizing, cooling, soothing, quieting, sedating, calming

Usage examples:

• Eugenie took delight in lulling her cousin's pain with the pretty childish joys of a new- born love. - "Eugenie Grandet", Honore de Balzac.
• The suffocating weakness that it brings to exhausted men, luring them to the sleep of death in her clinging soft embrace, lulling the will and conquering all desire for life- this was awfully upon him. - "Four Weird Tales", Algernon Blackwood.
• Wordsworth repeats the same thought almost in the same words: " A soft and lulling sound is heard Of streams inaudible by day." - "Little Rivers A Book Of Essays In Profitable Idleness", Henry van Dyke.