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Tranquilize

Tranquilize \Tran"quil*ize\, Tranquillize \Tran"quil*lize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tranquilizedor Tranquilliized; p. pr. & vb. n. Tranquilizingor Tranquillizing.] [Cf. F. tranquilliser.] To render tranquil; to allay when agitated; to compose; to make calm and peaceful; as, to tranquilize a state disturbed by factions or civil commotions; to tranquilize the mind.

Syn: To quiet; compose; still; soothe; appease; calm; pacify.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tranquilize

1620s, from tranquil + -ize. Related: Tranquilized; tranquilizing; tranquilization.

Wiktionary
tranquilize

vb. 1 To use a drug to sedate a person or animal. 2 To make something or someone tranquil; to pacify or calm. 3 (context intransitive English) To become tranquil; to relax. 4 (context intransitive English) To calm down.

WordNet
tranquilize
  1. v. make calm or still; "quiet the dragons of worry and fear" [syn: calm, calm down, quiet, tranquillize, tranquillise, quieten, lull, still] [ant: agitate]

  2. cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to; "The patient must be sedated before the operation" [syn: sedate, calm, tranquillize, tranquillise] [ant: stimulate]

Wikipedia
Tranquilize

"Tranquilize" is a song by Las Vegas-based rock band, The Killers featuring Lou Reed. The song was written by Brandon Flowers and it is featured on the compilation album Sawdust.

The song was made available for download on iTunes from October 12, 2007. There was also a limited edition etched 7" vinyl of "Tranquilize" available from November 5, featuring a lyric from the song hand picked by Brandon Flowers etched onto one side. The song reached number 13 on the UK Singles Chart and #11 on the Download chart. The track also won Best International Alternative/Indie Track at NME's first ever USA awards.

The song was featured in a trailer for the fifth and final season of HBO's original series Boardwalk Empire.

Usage examples of "tranquilize".

In all cases of debility, the Favorite Prescription tranquilizes the nerves, tones up the organs and increases their vigor, and strengthens the system.

Julie wagged the head, treating to shake that terror that paralyzed it, and also to tranquilize to Zack.

In name of God, how it tries that it tranquilizes to me when you are seated there, aiming to me with a weapon?

And when, in 1841, the great Charles Lyell traveled to America to give a series of lectures in Boston, sellout audiences of three thousand at a time packed into the Lowell Institute to hear his tranquilizing descriptions of marine zeolites and seismic perturbations in Campania.

Testing and Recruitment team in the Caucasus on Luvah, where they ambushed Paleolithic tribes with tranquilizing darts, Tested the adolescents, and carried off those with Trainability.

Perhaps the main complaint the average prostitute runner had about the universe was the fact that female communicants, unlike the less readily saleable males, never did reach the placid, tractable far-gone stage, and in order to be used had to be regularly tranquilized with doses of Blood.

He would be, in effect, a disembodied spirit, and, before injection, even that spirit would be placed into a tranquilized sleep, not to awaken until there was a reason for it to do so.

If you only tranquilize Terrorist X instead of killing him, you're going to expend a certain amount of energy and brain power wondering if maybe you didn't do it right, and maybe he's going to pop back up and mow down half your squad with his HK-93.

The calculated, widespread, and thoroughly sanctioned use of specific tranquilizing drugs such as the phenothiazines may not, like certain illegal street drugs, produce permanent brain damage, but they can -- and, God forbid, they do -- produce what I am afraid I must call "soul" damage.

So are you going to give her a tranquilizing shot, or do we let my friends die before they can find out how to save this dust-blown, rat-ass crummy little planet full of arrogant sons of bitches like you?

Watching his scurrying figure slow down, then collapse onto Unter den Linden, Roberta started to take off toward the tranquilized maniac, only to feel Seven lay a restraining hand upon her shoulder.

Invisible energy hummed momentarily, and the tranquilized feline drooped onto the straw-covered floor of his cage, settling in for a long nap.

Roberta almost tranquilized them with her servo, then realized that the men before her were none other than Takagi and Dr.

Seven spun around and fired again, turning the shove-happy scientist into a sagging mass of tranquilized bliss.

Peering over Evergreen’s shoulder, the last of the coffee trickling away from his eyes, Seven saw the tranquilized soldier contentedly roll over and slip back to dreamland.