tranquilize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹæŋkwɪlaɪz/
Forms: form: tranquilizes
form: tranquilizing
form: tranquilized
form: tranquilized
form: tranquillize
form: tranquilise
form: tranquillise
Etymology: From Middle French tranquiliser. Analyzable as tranquil + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: The escaped lion was finally tracked down, tranquilized, and safely returned to the zoo.
text: 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.
ref: 1962, Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, New York: Dial, page 255:
text: When the public protests, confronted with some obvious evidence of damaging results of pesticide applications, it is fed little tranquilizing pills of half truth.
ref: 1962, Rachel Carson, chapter 2, in Silent Spring, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 13:
synonyms: dart#Verb
sedate#Verb
glosses: To calm (a person or animal) or put them to sleep using a tranquilizer dart.
examples: text: 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.
text: […] 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.
ref: 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:
text: This threat, the reader may well suppose, was not very tranquilizing to my feelings.
ref: 1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter 13, in My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York; Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC:
text: 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 […]
ref: 1865, G. O. Trevelyan, chapter 5, in Cawnpore, London: Macmillan, page 322:
text: 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.
ref: 1931, E. F. Benson, chapter 4, in Mapp and Lucia:
text: But time had tranquillized Dina’s worries about the landlord.
ref: 1995, Rohinton Mistry, chapter 11, in A Fine Balance, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, page 497:
synonyms: appease
calm
pacify
glosses: To make (something or someone) tranquil.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter I”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume V, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC, page 11:
synonyms: calm down
relax
glosses: To become tranquil.
examples: text: The bear should go down several minutes after being tranquilized.
text: Moose should only be down about 15 to 20 minutes after being tranquilized.
ref: 2004 March 15, Laura Hancock, Deseret News:
glosses: To dart (a person or animal) with a sedative
Synonyms: trank
tranq
Derived terms: trank
tranq
tranquilization
tranquilizer
Related terms: tranquil
tranquility
tranquilness