TRANQUILIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tranquilize mean? 

• TRANQUILIZE (verb)
  The verb TRANQUILIZE has 2 senses:

1. make calm or still

2. cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to

  Familiarity information: TRANQUILIZE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRANQUILIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they tranquilize    ... he / she / it tranquilizes   
Past simple: tranquilized   
Past participle: tranquilized   
-ing form: tranquilizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make calm or still

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

calm; calm down; lull; quiet; quieten; still; tranquilize; tranquillise; tranquillize

Context example:

quiet the dragons of worry and fear

Hypernyms (to "tranquilize" is one way to...):

comfort; console; solace; soothe (give moral or emotional strength to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "tranquilize"):

lull (calm by deception)

compose (calm (someone, especially oneself); make quiet)

appease; assuage; conciliate; gentle; gruntle; lenify; mollify; pacify; placate (cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of)

assure; reassure (cause to feel sure; give reassurance to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence example:

Sam cannot tranquilize Sue

Derivation:

tranquilizer (a drug used to reduce stress or tension without reducing mental clarity)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

calm; sedate; tranquilize; tranquillise; tranquillize

Context example:

The patient must be sedated before the operation

Hypernyms (to "tranquilize" is one way to...):

affect (act physically on; have an effect upon)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "tranquilize"):

hypnotise; hypnotize; mesmerise; mesmerize (induce hypnosis in)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

tranquilizer (a drug used to reduce stress or tension without reducing mental clarity)

 Context examples 

Elinor paid her every quiet and unobtrusive attention in her power; and she would have tried to sooth and tranquilize her still more, had not Marianne entreated her, with all the eagerness of the most nervous irritability, not to speak to her for the world.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)