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tranquillizer

/ˈtraŋkwɪlʌɪzə/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈtraŋkwɪlʌɪzə/

tranquillizer

Syllables: 4 syllables
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Final r is pronounced in US English

tran - quil - li - zer -> tranquillizer

Myanmar meaning

စိတ်ငြိမ်ဆေး။

Full entry

tranquillize,-ise

(US also tranquilize )/'træŋ- kwǝlaÇz/ v
ငြိမ်ဆိမ်စေသည် (သို့) မေ့ဆေးပေးသည်။
the tranquillizing effect of the music ❍ The game wardens tranquillized the rhinoceros with a drugged dart.
❏ tranquillizer,-iser n
စိတ်ငြိမ်ဆေး။ She's on (ie is taking) tranquillizers.

More examples

‘I have also tried a number of our strongest tranquilizing drugs, but nothing seems to curb his anger.’
‘As he fought to rip the net apart, Francis noticed, with horror, that their struggles were only pulling the net tighter, causing it to inject increasing amounts of tranquilizing drugs into their bodies.’
‘It may well be that interpreting the first in terms of the latter motivates a doctor to bury his patient's existential despair under a heap of tranquilizing drugs.’
‘If she was, he was glad he'd taken the tranquilizing drugs to dampen out his responses, and to give him a more ‘pleasant’ personality.’
‘The guards are the life-support machines and the tranquilizing drugs.’
‘Drinking alcohol does not produce true ‘relaxation’ - it ‘drugs’ or ‘tranquilizes’ the drinker, and alcohol cannot only disrupt sleep, it can cause stress.’
‘Sapphire releases violet cosmic rays, which are cooling and tranquilizing.’
‘The 1950s saw the introduction of tranquilizing type drugs, and this did a lot to help deal with the anxiety many of the combat veterans were suffering from.’
‘They have a tranquillising effect, without necessarily causing sleepiness.’
‘It is a tricyclic antidepressant with one of the most powerful anti-itch and antihistaminic effects, as well as sedative / tranquilizing effects.’
‘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.’
‘The discovery of Librium and other minor tranquilizing drugs provided an intriguing new approach to understanding the anxiety neuroses.’
‘They were taking more tranquilising drugs, they were in bigger proportion depressed.’
‘He hoped that its tranquillising effect could be used to give the patient some rest.’
‘Generation after generation of families of families, systematically marginalised by their supposed betters and tranquillised by welfare and drugs, are doomed to the underclass.’
‘Eventually the bears were tranquilized Monday and moved to another den within their habitat, in hopes the pair would nod off to sleep again for another month.’
‘He polished off the entire bottle before she was able to get him to hold still long enough for her to tranquilize him.’
‘‘Now, son, don't forget that we do have to tranquilize you, too, ’ Andy tells me.’
‘In such cases, they hold you down and tranquilize you, like an animal, like the unreachable wounded animal they consider you to be.’
‘We had tried everything and the day we tranquilized her and still couldn't catch her I cried.’

Synonyms

Antonyms

aggravate, agitate, anger, arouse, distress, disturb, excite, incite, irritate, rouse, stir up, upset, worry

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