tranquillize
Britishverb
Other Word Forms
- tranquillization noun
Example Sentences
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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
An attempt was made to tranquillize them, by assembling them in a circle, offering to smoke with them the pipe of peace, and presenting them with tobacco, knives, fire-steels, and flints.
From Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe by Bingley, William
Early in 1905 M. Jaur�s urged upon the chamber that the demand of the Jewish officer should be granted if only to tranquillize the country.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
All these things, combine to tranquillize passion at thirty.
From Anna of the Five Towns by Bennett, Arnold
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 Cox, George
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