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Tranquilize

//ˈtɹæŋkwɪlaɪz// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To calm (a person or animal) or put them to sleep using a tranquilizer dart. transitive

    "The escaped lion was finally tracked down, tranquilized, and safely returned to the zoo."

  2. 2
    cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to wordnet
  3. 3
    To make (something or someone) tranquil. literary, transitive

    "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."

  4. 4
    make calm or still wordnet
  5. 5
    To become tranquil. intransitive, obsolete, rare

    "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."

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  1. 6
    To dart (a person or animal) with a sedative transitive

    "The bear should go down several minutes after being tranquilized."

Etymology

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

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