- 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
Surely the vast army of the grass hath its victories, for the most part noiseless, peace-yielding victories that gladden the eye and tranquillize the heart.
From Under the Maples by John Burroughs
Occasionally, he sought society, but it failed to enliven him, and he then tried to tranquillize his mind by writing poems in the language he was elaborating.
From The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary by George Cox
I stop not, for I arrive; let thy preoccupation get calmed: 28.5 tranquillize thy heart: prepare not privations for him who offerest himself to eat.
From Egyptian Literature Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings by Epiphanius Wilson
The winning tenderness of her mild, subdued glance had a power which could tranquillize Napoleon in his darkest moods.
From Lives of Celebrated Women by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich
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