The word 'tranquilize' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to express the act of calming or making someone relaxed or peaceful. Example sentence: The doctor administered the tranquilizer to help the patient relax.
Drugs that combat anxiety have been called tranquilizers, an inexact term in that they do not tranquilize as much as reduce anxiety and enable dysfunctional patients to cope more effectively with life's vicissitudes and lead more rewarding lives.
He does not try to get blood samples with "biopsy darts" or capture or tranquilize apes for study.
Mr. Hanna later defended the sheriff's decision to kill the animals rather than attempt to tranquilize and subdue them.
Italian news outlets reported on Thursday that a number of lawmakers from Mr. Berlusconi's coalition had signed a letter asking him to stand down to allow for the creation of a government that could pass the measures that would tranquilize jittery financial markets.
"Most of the men said the women would offer a drink either laced with something to tranquilize them or were forced at gunpoint".
Assuming the commitments she made were authentic and not simply designed to tranquilize the members of the Judiciary Committee, she could act as an important brake on the current Supreme Court's alarming tendency to bulldoze through decades of settled precedents.
Tranquilizing drugs (ataractics) act primarily on the lower levels of the brain, relieving tension without reducing mental sharpness.
Diazepam, tranquilizing drug used in the treatment of anxiety and as an aid in preoperative and postoperative sedation.
In its psychoactive effects, nicotine is a unique substance with a biphasic effect; when inhaled in short puffs it has a stimulant effect, but when smoked in deep drags it can have a tranquilizing effect.
The drug has a unique biphasic psychoactive effect: when inhaled in short puffs it acts as a stimulant, but when smoked in deep drags it can have a tranquilizing effect.
Some have been tranquilized for educational use, she claims.
