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Discover LudwigThe word 'tranquillize' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to mean "to make tranquil, calm, or peaceful." For example, "The therapeutic music helped to tranquillize the hectic atmosphere of the room."
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tranquillize
verb
Alternative spelling of tranquilize
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In common with Kapadia's last movie, "Senna," a race through the life and lap times of the Brazilian Formula 1 driver Ayrton Senna, there is no narrator to link the images and tranquillize the mood.
The only thing every other a-hole could think to do was tranquillize me, turn me into a zombie.
As he says in "30th Century Man," a documentary about his life, his baritone voice had the potential to "tranquillize" people.
"If we catch anything, we'll tranquillize them and put on a radio collar".
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The plan is to shoot about two hundred deer with tranquillizing pellets, capture them while they are tranquil, and remove them to the mainland, where they will be released in the woods, lose their tranquillity, regain their suspicion, and then be shot in the normal manner by licensed hunters with real bullets.
Nobody can mistake the tranquil beauty of Kore-eda's scenes, but the trouble with tranquil beauty is that if the dose is too high it leaves you tranquillized.
We were tranquillized by the vision of this amiable literary man on the other side of the Atlantic, sitting in his study, poking up the fire & then sipping a little port; seeking out thr verses of the long-dead Edward Taylor... We saw him coming to the conclusion that Edward Taylor was a not uninteresting minor poet.
When I met her, the following year, she was fifty-six, with blond hair, a slight build, an easy manner, and nothing to hide; frank but not theatrical, calm to the point of seeming tranquillized, no flash or fast-talking speech about "a vision thing," which I now suspect was because her job had been so simply defined: make the bottom line work.
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Perhaps Peter lives in a house with cathedral ceilings, because Megan, who occasionally suffers sleep paralysis (a scary disorder that causes you to feel conscious even though your body is temporarily immobilized as in REM sleep), found the blue light so tranquillizing that she says she'd recommend it to restless friends.
We bought him at auction, tranquillized to a drooping.
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