transcription, транскрипция: [ lʌl ]
( lulls, lulling, lulled)
1.
A lull is a period of quiet or calm in a longer period of activity or excitement.
There was a lull in political violence after the election of the current president.
...a lull in the conversation.
N-COUNT : oft N in n
2.
If you are lulled into feeling safe, someone or something causes you to feel safe at a time when you are not safe.
It is easy to be lulled into a false sense of security...
Lulled by almost uninterrupted economic growth, too many European firms assumed that this would last for ever.
VERB : be V-ed into n / -ing , V-ed , also V n into n / -ing
3.
If someone or something lulls you, they cause you to feel calm or sleepy.
With the shutters half-closed and the calm airy height of the room to lull me, I soon fell into a doze...
Before he knew it, the heat and hum of the forest had lulled him to sleep.
VERB : V n , V n into/to n
4.
If you describe a situation as the lull before the storm , you mean that although it is calm now, there is going to be trouble in the future.
PHRASE : v-link PHR