tranquillize

/ ˈtræŋkwɪˌlaɪz /

verb

1. to make or become calm or calmer

Derived Forms

• ˌtranquilliˈzation, noun

Example Sentences

The bear was eventually tranquillized and taken to the nearest suitable forest habitat, said Tim Daly, a Fish and Wildlife spokesman.

From The Guardian

He wondered whether lithium could have the same tranquillizing effect on his patients.

From Nature

He killed the time reading Will James and the poems his grandmother had clipped from the livestock papers and collected in a shoebox, tranquillized by a stiff cocktail of existential despair.

From The Guardian

The physical restraints were then often replaced by chemical ones, and residents were tranquillized with powerful antipsychotics such as Haldol.

From The New Yorker

A decade later: “These are the tranquillized Fifties, / and I am forty.”

From The Guardian