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• v  make calm or still
• v  cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to
• s  tending to soothe or tranquilize
  valium has a tranquilizing effect

• The tranquilizing drug ketamine is undergoing a resurgence in emergency medical settings.
• For Negroes, he says, "the word wait' has been a tranquilizing Thalidomide," giving "birth to an ill-formed infant of frustration.
• According to Dawson's studies of urine samples from 3,000 Texans, El Paso's water is heavily laced with lithium, a tranquilizing chemical widely used in the treatment of manic .

• calm
• calm down
• quiet
• tranquilize
• tranquillize
• tranquillise
• quieten
• lull
• still
• sedate
• ataractic
• ataraxic
• sedative
• tranquillizing
• tranquilising
• tranquillising

• agitate
• stimulate

News & Articles

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• Maine College Students Take On A Bear Of A Study
  The state is trying to keep tabs on its bear population. Undergraduates at Unity College are in the woods tranquilizing bears and collaring them so the state can better understand the animals.
  June 14, 2013 - NPR

Quotes

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• Martin Luther King in WIS
  Dr. Martin Luther King said in his I Have a Dream speech that, "we have also come to this hallowed spot to remind 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...
• Joseph Yam in Bloomberg
  It should have a useful tranquilizing effect on the very stressful market,Joseph Yam, chief executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, said of the plan today. "The continued stress in the largest market in the world has serious...
• David Dreier in USA Today
  The House of Representatives, Dreier said, needed to be bold and avoid "the tranquilizing drug of gradualism."