- a variation of tranquilize.
tranquillize
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In common with Kapadia’s last movie, “Senna,” a race through the life and lap times of the Brazilian Formula 1 driver Ayrton Senna, there is no narrator to link the images and tranquillize the mood.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 1, 2015
This did not contribute to tranquillize the reader, so he got up and went out and in, listening anxiously.
From Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker In Three Volumes. Vol. I. by Auerbach, Berthold
It is shaped and set to stand and abide where men consort, to unify their minds, and tranquillize their strifes.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.
She was formed to shine in the most brilliant circle—yet she relinquished it, and patiently labours to p. 69improve the children consigned to her management, and tranquillize her own mind.
From Mary Wollstonecraft's Original Stories by Wollstonecraft, Mary
All these things, combine to tranquillize passion at thirty.
From Anna of the Five Towns by Bennett, Arnold
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