# tranquilize
## English
### Alternative forms

* tranquillize, tranquilise, tranquillise

### Etymology

From Middle French tranquiliser. Analyzable as tranquil +‎ -ize.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /ˈtɹæŋkwɪlaɪz/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Hyphenation: tran‧quil‧ize

### Verb

tranquilize (third-person singular simple present tranquilizes, present participle tranquilizing, simple past and past participle tranquilized)
* (transitive) To calm (a person or animal) or put them to sleep using a tranquilizer dart.
    Synonyms: dart, sedate
    The escaped lion was finally tracked down, tranquilized, and safely returned to the zoo.
** 1962, Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest‎, New York: Dial, page 255:Miss Ratched shall line us all against the wall, where we’ll face the terrible maw of a muzzle-loading shotgun which she has loaded with Miltowns! Thorazines! Libriums! Stelazines! And with a wave of her sword, blooie! Tranquilize all of us completely out of existence.
** 1962, Rachel Carson, chapter 2, in Silent Spring‎, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 13:When the public protests, confronted with some obvious evidence of damaging results of pesticide applications, it is fed little tranquilizing pills of half truth.
* (transitive, now literary) To make (something or someone) tranquil.
    Synonyms: appease, calm, pacify
** 1779, Frances Burney, Evelina, Dublin: Price, Corcoran et al., Volume 2, Letter 14, p. 87,
    […] with words of sweetest kindness and consolation, he soothed and tranquilised me.
** 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC:[…] I feel my heart glow with an enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven, for nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose,—a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
** 1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter 13, in My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York, Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC:This threat, the reader may well suppose, was not very tranquilizing to my feelings.
** 1865, G. O. Trevelyan, chapter 5, in Cawnpore‎, London: Macmillan, page 322:The column was placed under the orders of Major Renaud, who pushed up the road; fighting as occasion offered; tranquillizing the country by the very simple expedient of hanging everybody who showed signs of insubordination […]
** 1931, E. F. Benson, chapter 4, in Mapp and Lucia‎:Supported by an impregnable sense of justice but still dangerously fuming, Lucia went back to her garden-room, to tranquillize herself with an hour’s practice on the new piano.
** 1995, Rohinton Mistry, chapter 11, in A Fine Balance‎, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, page 497:But time had tranquillized Dina’s worries about the landlord.
* (intransitive, obsolete, rare) To become tranquil.
    Synonyms: calm down, relax
** 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter I”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume V, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC, page 11:Seest thou not, that this unseasonable gravity is admitted to quell the palpitations of this unmanageable heart? But still it will go on with its boundings. I’ll try, as I ride in my chariot, to tranquillize.
* (transitive) To dart (a person or animal) with a sedative
    The bear should go down several minutes after being tranquilized.
** 2004 March 15, Laura Hancock, Deseret News‎:Moose should only be down about 15 to 20 minutes after being tranquilized.

#### Synonyms

* trank
* tranq

#### Antonyms

* madden

#### Derived terms

* trank
* tranq
* tranquilization
* tranquilizer

#### Related terms

* tranquil
* tranquility
* tranquilness

#### References

* ↑ Thomas Blount, Glossographia, London: George Sawbridge, 1661: “Tranquillize […] to make quiet, still or calm, to cause tranquility.”

## Portuguese
### Verb

tranquilize
* inflection of tranquilizar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative