tranquillize

/ ˈtræŋkwɪˌlaɪz /

verb

1. to make or become calm or calmer

Other Word Forms

• tranquillization noun

Example Sentences

The bear was eventually tranquillized and taken to the nearest suitable forest habitat, said Tim Daly, a Fish and Wildlife spokesman.

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He wondered whether lithium could have the same tranquillizing effect on his patients.

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He killed the time reading Will James and the poems his grandmother had clipped from the livestock papers and collected in a shoebox, tranquillized by a stiff cocktail of existential despair.

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The physical restraints were then often replaced by chemical ones, and residents were tranquillized with powerful antipsychotics such as Haldol.

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A decade later: “These are the tranquillized Fifties, / and I am forty.”

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