soothing syrup

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   medicine in the form of a syrup that has a calming effect

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Questions about soothing syrup

What does soothing syrup mean?

soothing syrup means "medicine in the form of a syrup that has a calming effect".

Is soothing syrup a common word?

soothing syrup is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.