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• s  tending to soothe or tranquilize

• Estimating that 35 million prescriptions for ataraxic (tranquilizing) drugs (PTI, June 11) will be written in 1956, the American Psychiatric Association got off a warning to .
• To the fast-swelling ranks of ataraxic (tranquilizing) drugs, another was added last week for patients with relatively mild emotional disorders.
• It may do this not only by ordering rest or prolonged sleep but artificial hibernation or treatment with ataraxic drugs and others (including hormones) not yet discovered.

• ataractic
• sedative
• tranquilizing
• tranquillizing
• tranquilising
• tranquillising