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tranquillize

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verb

  1. to make or become calm or calmer
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

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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.

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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.â€

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