tranquillizer
Britishnoun
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a drug that calms a person without affecting clarity of consciousness
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anything that tranquillizes
Example Sentences
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Aiming a rifle-like tranquillizer gun out the window of her Toyota Landcruiser, Otto shot a dart into each rhino, generally from around 50 yards.
From Salon • Dec. 25, 2021
“Halt,” he said, patting the tranquillizer gun at his side.
From Nature • Apr. 7, 2020
Things begin to stir as David and the other residents, armed with tranquillizer guns, are forced to go hunting.
From The New Yorker • May 16, 2016
Now, nature is intervening — and could either save the landmark project without the need for tranquillizer darts and wolf crates, or sound its death knell.
From Nature • Feb. 12, 2014
Let us add that the church, that vast church, which surrounded her on every side, which guarded her, which saved her, was itself a sovereign tranquillizer.
From Notre-Dame De Paris by Hapgood, Isabel Florence
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