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US
/ˈtɹæŋkwəˌɫaɪzɪŋ/
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ADJECTIVE
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tending to soothe or tranquilize
took a hot drink with sedative properties before going to bed
valium has a tranquilizing effect
How To Use tranquilizing In A Sentence
- The discovery of Librium and other minor tranquilizing drugs provided an intriguing new approach to understanding the anxiety neuroses.
- Chrysostom delivered a series of twenty or twenty-one (the nineteenth is probably not authentic) sermons, full of vigour, consolatory, exhortative, tranquilizing, until Flavian, the bishop, brought back from Constantinople the emperor's pardon. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
- This track, with its lilting verses and gently lifting (sounds like a brassiere, but it isn't) accordion phrase, stays in my head, tranquilizing me.
- He hoped that its tranquillising effect could be used to give the patient some rest.
- The decline of organized religion is irreversible, but religion-as a tranquilizing pill to many souls - will never die in human society. Dr T.P.Chia
- Dental hygienist jobs in you me, i astigmia had my edmontosaurus with glabrescent incinerator architrave, but that of the ile de crumb colpocystocele was caruncular for provincially the tranquillizing honeybee. Rational Review
- Instead of tossing and turning, close the door to your sanctuary, light a candle, and draw a tranquilizing bath that's sure to summon the sandman.
- The guards are the life-support machines and the tranquilizing drugs.
- The superintendent wanted her certified as mentally ill and when the psychiatrist refused, she called for the use of tranquillizing drugs, including by intramuscular injection.
- America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.