Tranquillizer

Definition

tranquillize,-ise ( US also tranquilize )/'træŋ- kwǝlaÇz/ v ၿငိမ္ဆိမ္ေစသည္ (သို႔) ေမ့ေဆးေပးသည္။ the tranquillizing effect of the music ❍ The game wardens tranquillized the rhinoceros with a drugged dart. ❏ tranquillizer,-iser n စိတ္ၿငိမ္ေဆး။ She's on (ie is taking) tranquillizers.

Examples

1. ‘I have also tried a number of our strongest tranquilizing drugs
2. but nothing seems to curb his anger.’
3. ‘As he fought to rip the net apart
4. Francis noticed
5. with horror
6. that their struggles were only pulling the net tighter
7. causing it to inject increasing amounts of tranquilizing drugs into their bodies.’
8. ‘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.’
9. ‘If she was
10. he was glad he'd taken the tranquilizing drugs to dampen out his responses
11. and to give him a more ‘pleasant’ personality.’
12. ‘The guards are the life-support machines and the tranquilizing drugs.’
13. ‘Drinking alcohol does not produce true ‘relaxation’ - it ‘drugs’ or ‘tranquilizes’ the drinker
14. and alcohol cannot only disrupt sleep
15. it can cause stress.’
16. ‘Sapphire releases violet cosmic rays
17. which are cooling and tranquilizing.’
18. ‘The 1950s saw the introduction of tranquilizing type drugs
19. and this did a lot to help deal with the anxiety many of the combat veterans were suffering from.’
20. ‘They have a tranquillising effect
21. without necessarily causing sleepiness.’
22. ‘It is a tricyclic antidepressant with one of the most powerful anti-itch and antihistaminic effects
23. as well as sedative / tranquilizing effects.’
24. ‘The superintendent wanted her certified as mentally ill and when the psychiatrist refused
25. she called for the use of tranquillizing drugs
26. including by intramuscular injection.’
27. ‘The discovery of Librium and other minor tranquilizing drugs provided an intriguing new approach to understanding the anxiety neuroses.’
28. ‘They were taking more tranquilising drugs
29. they were in bigger proportion depressed.’
30. ‘He hoped that its tranquillising effect could be used to give the patient some rest.’
31. ‘Generation after generation of families of families
32. systematically marginalised by their supposed betters and tranquillised by welfare and drugs
33. are doomed to the underclass.’
34. ‘Eventually the bears were tranquilized Monday and moved to another den within their habitat
35. in hopes the pair would nod off to sleep again for another month.’
36. ‘He polished off the entire bottle before she was able to get him to hold still long enough for her to tranquilize him.’
37. ‘‘Now
38. son
39. don't forget that we do have to tranquilize you
40. too
41. ’ Andy tells me.’
42. ‘In such cases
43. they hold you down and tranquilize you
44. like an animal
45. like the unreachable wounded animal they consider you to be.’
46. ‘We had tried everything and the day we tranquilized her and still couldn't catch her I cried.’