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Tranquillize

verb
(past & past part. tranquilized or tranquillized; pres. part. tranquilizing or tranquillizing)
1.
Make calm or still.  Synonyms: calm, calm down, lull, quiet, quieten, still, tranquilize, tranquillise.
2.
Cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to.  Synonyms: calm, sedate, tranquilize, tranquillise.



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"Tranquillize" Quotes from Famous Books



... said, after a moment's thought. "I think that they had better wrap him up in sacking, so that he cannot move his arms, tie a rope round him, and lower him down close by the side of the steps, my father coming down side by side with him, so as to speak to him and tranquillize him." ...
— In Times of Peril • G. A. Henty

... caymans which are very numerous in those parts. My perplexity was extreme: delicacy and the affluent circumstances of my host forbade me to think of repairing his loss; and M. Lavie, more considerate of our situation than sensible of his own misfortune, endeavoured to tranquillize us by exaggerating the facility with which fine horses were procurable from the ...
— Equinoctial Regions of America V3 • Alexander von Humboldt

... which his own was linked by indissoluble bonds, would mourn for his fate. He had learned also from Tom Godber the secret of the filial relation in which he himself stood to Sir Morgan. Even this contributed to tranquillize him, by taking away all color of presumption from his own addresses to Miss Walladmor, and all color of degradation from her with which hereafter the censorious might else have reproached her. He felt also a secret joy, such as a lover's heart is apt to feel, in the circumstance of being Miss ...
— Walladmor: - And Now Freely Translated from the German into English. - In Two Volumes. Vol. II. • Thomas De Quincey



Words linked to "Tranquillize" :   lenify, lull, gentle, mesmerize, soothe, placate, agitate, mesmerise, pacify, reassure, mollify, console, solace, assure, stimulate, comfort, gruntle, conciliate, hypnotize, compose, affect, assuage, appease, hypnotise



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