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tranquilizer
[ trang-kwuh-lahy-zer ]
noun
- a person or thing that tranquilizes.
- a drug that has a sedative or calming effect without inducing sleep.
Word History and Origins
Origin of tranquilizer1
Example Sentences
A breakthrough came in the 2010s, when several studies showed that ketamine, a horse tranquilizer and party drug, had jaw-dropping effects for depression.
They had to inject it with a potent elephant tranquilizer before it was safe to approach.
The bears have to be darted with tranquilizers oftentimes from helicopters, for instance, or they have to be trapped in a culvert.
NPY works as a natural tranquilizer that controls anxiety and buffers the effects of stress hormones like norepinephrine.
Another Tylenol and a tranquilizer three hours later don't do the trick and the demons do a shock and awe attack.
Another Tylenol and a tranquilizer three hours later didn't do the trick and the demons attacked in full force.
I'm down to a tranquilizer and a half a day and only a few are left.
Nobody could imagine a greater satisfaction than curling up with a good tranquilizer!
There might be something in it that could help—a tranquilizer perhaps.
I suggest that you stretch your legs in the park and feed the swans as a tranquilizer.
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