Crossword clues for tranquillizer
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tranquilizer \Tran"quil*i`zer\, Tranquillizer \Tran"quil*li`zer\ , n. One who, or that which, tranquilizes.
Wiktionary
n. (context US English) (alternative spelling of tranquilizer English)
WordNet
n. a drug used to reduce stress or tension without reducing mental clarity [syn: tranquilizer, tranquilliser, antianxiety agent, ataractic drug, ataractic agent, ataractic]
Usage examples of "tranquillizer".
But now he felt a stubborn determination rising up against the tranquillizer program muffling his mind.
Painkiller, blood-thinner, tranquillizer, vasodilator, and diuretic all drip into his system from above, painting the hospital world with rosy tints of benevolence and amusement.
A fitful wind whirled its burden of gaily-colored aspirin and tranquillizer cartons and gum and cigarette wrappers into the faces of the well-fed burghers and their mates who puffed along on bunioned feet, their life-blunted features set in expressions of opaque anonymity, oblivious of the mixed chorus of auto horns, the spirited cries of impatient taxi drivers, and the merry voices of news vendors hawking details of the latest disaster.
He had developed a splitting headache despite the tranquillizer program, and he’d caught his limbs trembling several times as he drifted along the passage.
Rindfleisch described herself as a pioneer of state-of-the-art tranquillizers in Willowsville in those heady years) and nearly collided with a display of hot water bottles, staring the tall rangy classmate of her son's, what was his name, the Heart boy, boy with the astonishing sexy eyes, the boy who'd plugged Melvin Riggs, Jr.
The first tranquillizer to be introduced to the medical world (in 1954) was reserpine, a natural alkaloid found in the dried roots of a shrub from India.
How much later Kelly didn’t know, her mind was furred with tranquillizers, thoughts slow.
Doris was a case of severe addiction to tranquillizers and, although she didn't take my advice about dropping them slowly, her determination to take responsibility and fight the addiction was a vital factor in her recovery.
Not for perhaps tranquillizers, which were flavour less and which in sufficient quantity would certainly have sent a driver to sleep.
The tranquillizers are not cures for any mental illness, but they suppress certain symptoms that stand in the way of adequate treatment.
She became addicted to one of her company's own tranquillizers - sad case, really.