tranquillize
Britishverb
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- tranquillization noun
Example Sentences
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The bear was eventually tranquillized and taken to the nearest suitable forest habitat, said Tim Daly, a Fish and Wildlife spokesman.
From The Guardian
He wondered whether lithium could have the same tranquillizing effect on his patients.
From Nature
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.
From The Guardian
The physical restraints were then often replaced by chemical ones, and residents were tranquillized with powerful antipsychotics such as Haldol.
From The New Yorker
A decade later: “These are the tranquillized Fifties, / and I am forty.”
From The Guardian
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