Definitions for lulls

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lulls lull

Spelling: [luhl]

IPA: /lʌl/

Lulls is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 13 anagrams from letters in lulls (lllsu).

Definitions for lulls

noun

1. a temporary calm, quiet, or stillness:
2. a soothing sound:
3. a pacified or stupefied condition:

verb (used with object)

1. to put to sleep or rest by soothing means:
2. to soothe or quiet.
3. to give or lead to feel a false sense of safety; cause to be less alert, aware, or watchful.

verb (used without object)

1. to quiet down, let up, or subside:

Origin of lulls

1300-50; Middle English lullen, of expressive orig.; compare Swedish lulla, German lullen, Latin lallāre to sing lullaby

Examples for lulls

It is usually only during the lulls in the wind that Culex can fly.

The lulls in the fighting had been short, and only to prepare new efforts.

In the lulls he turned his head and gazed over the sea, looking for the boat.

It “lulls you into this sense of security because it is a world of your own creation.”

In one of the lulls, I hauled Molo through the air and into the cave.

Love in all its delirium hovers about me; like opium it lulls me to safe repose!

He guards his garden by day, and lulls him to sleep by night.

There was the briefest of lulls in jokes when Obama said he was proud of his Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor.

His mother was one of them white-livered lulls, from Pomfret.

A still, pale fog is soothing; it lulls nature to a kind of repose.