text: # lull
  
  ## Anglais
  
  ### Étymologie
  
      Du moyen anglais lullen.
  
  ### Nom commun
  
  lull \lʌl\
  
  * Pause, période de repos.
  * (Marine) Bonace, calme ; période sans vent, ou sans vagues.
  * (Économie) Récession.
  
  ### Verbe
  
  lull \lʌl\ transitif et intransitif
  
  * (Transitif) Bercer, calmer.
     * People were lulled into a false sense of security.
  * (Intransitif) Se calmer.
     * Another danger was hallucination. Kelly had an active mind, and he was now in an environment devoid of input. Worse, his body was being lulled. He was in a nearly weightless state, rather like it must have been in the womb, and the sheer comfort of the experience was dangerous. — (Tom Clancy, Without Remorse, 1993.)
  
  **Synonymes**
  
  * appease
  * compose
  * calm
  * soothe
  * quiet
  * calm down
  
  ### Prononciation
  
  * \lʌl\ Royaume-Uni (Sud de l'Angleterre) : écouter « lull »
  