- 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
Inexpressibly touched by this outburst of grief in one to whose nature such weakness was so foreign, Herrera did his utmost to console and tranquillize his friend.
From Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 by Various
They know its austere yet submitting beauty; they know what force there is in its free and earnest and solemn verse to strengthen, to tranquillize, to console.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
What a heap of roubles it would take to tranquillize him!
From Ghetto Tragedies by Zangwill, Israel
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.
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