soporate means to lay or put to sleep; to stupefy. It carries an Arena rating of 1569, earned across 41 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, soporate ranks #1,539 of 17,151 for The Improbable, #1,897 of 17,142 for Most Ingenious Words, #3,515 of 17,131 for Scariest Words, #4,271 of 17,163 for Funniest Words.
Why “soporate” is a great word
SOPORATE — [Verb] To lay or put to sleep; to stupefy, often by overwhelming or artificial means. From the Latin soporatus, past participle of soporare ("to put to sleep"), from sopor ("a heavy sleep"). Earliest known use in English: 1623. Unlike "soporific" (which primarily describes a property that induces drowsiness) or "lull" (which suggests a gentle, soothing induction into calm), to soporate is the active, deliberate imposition of a profound and heavy slumber. It is the anesthetic gas flooding the operating theatre, the leaden weight of a narcotic, or the wordless drone of a summer afternoon that pins the will to the earth—a surrender not to rest, but to the quiet violence of enforced oblivion.
Etymology
From Latin soporatus, past participle of soporare (“to put to sleep”), from sopor (“a heavy sleep”).
verb
- To lay or put to sleep; to stupefy.e.g.“the soul seeming not to be thoroughly awake here , but , as it were , soporated with the dull steams and opiatic vapours of this gross body” — 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Rich
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