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Definition: Tranquilizer |
TranquilizerNoun1. A drug used to reduce stress or tension without reducing mental clarity. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Medicine | This type of pill acts as a depressant on the central nervous system and sometimes on the skeletal muscles, -- are prescribed to relieve tension and anxiety. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: TranquilizerSynonyms: antianxiety agent (n), ataractic (n), ataractic agent (n), ataractic drug (n), tranquilliser (n), tranquillizer (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inactivity | Lullaby, sedative, tranquilizer, hypnotic, sleeping pill, relaxant, anaesthetic, general anaesthetic; torpedo. |
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Crosswords: Tranquilizer |
| English words defined with "tranquilizer": antianxiety drug, antipsychotic, antipsychotic agent, antipsychotic drug, anxiolytic, anxiolytic drug, Atarax, Ativan ♦ chlordiazepoxide, chlorpromazine ♦ Dalmane, diazepam ♦ Equanil ♦ fluphenazine, flurazepam, flurazepam hydrochloride ♦ Haldol, haloperidol, hydroxyzine, hydroxyzine hydrochloride ♦ Libritabs, Librium, lorazepam, loxapine, Loxitane ♦ major tranquilizer, major tranquillizer, Mellaril, Meprin, meprobamate, Miltown, minor tranquilizer, minor tranquillizer ♦ Navane, neuroleptic, neuroleptic agent, neuroleptic drug ♦ perphenazine ♦ thioridazine, thiothixene, Thorazine, Triavil ♦ Valium, Vistaril. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tranquilizer": Conscious Sedation ♦ Flupenthixol ♦ Neuroleptanalgesia. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Tranquilizer" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (tranquillizer). |
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Screenplays | Hey, c'mon, you haven't lived until you've had a horse tranquilizer. (Vengeance Unlimited; writing credit: Andrew Davies; William Makepeace Thackeray) Angel, a monument to unholy carnality, and a cesspool of marital pollution, a shameless, brazen, bulldozing female prepared to humiliate, provoke, and tantalize, savagely seeking the tranquilizer of unrestrained fulfillment. (Good Morning... and Goodbye!; writing credit: Jack Moran) I could use a tranquilizer. (You Can Count on Me; writing credit: Kenneth Lonergan) | |
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Health | The drug of first choice to treat myoclonus, especially certain types of action myoclonus, is clonazepam, a type of tranquilizer. (references) | |
Fragile X children with ADHD may benefit from the addition of tricyclic antidepressants or a major tranquilizer such as thioridazine (Mellaril). (references) | ||
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Dennis Miller | I never enjoyed air flight, but now I don't board a plane without taking a moment to shoot myself in the thigh with a tranquilizer dart. |
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Expressions using "tranquilizer": elephant tranquilizer ♦ major tranquilizer ♦ minor tranquilizer ♦ monkey tranquilizer. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
tranquilizer gun | 67 | animal gun tranquilizer | 3 |
tranquilizer | 37 | animal tranquilizer | 3 |
darts tranquilizer | 15 | natural tranquilizer | 2 |
horse tranquilizer | 6 | make tranquilizer | 2 |
gun sale tranquilizer | 5 | barbiturate danger downer drug tranquilizer | 2 |
dog tranquilizer | 5 | aids tranquilizer | 2 |
dart gun tranquilizer | 5 | pistol tranquilizer | 2 |
cat tranquilizer | 4 | rifle tranquilizer | 2 |
cattle gun tranquilizer | 4 | buy gun tranquilizer | 2 |
dart tranquilizer | 3 | major tranquilizer | 2 |
herbal tranquilizer | 2 | ||
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| Language | Translations for "tranquilizer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | qetësues (anodyne, assuagement, balmy, bland, calming, comforting, demulcent, depressant, drug, easeful, lenitive, pacificatory, painkiller, palliative, paregoric, reposeful, restful, sedative, soother, soothing), bar qetësues (paregoric). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مسكن الألم (analgesic, pain killer, palliative), عقار مهدئ للأعصاب, المهدئ (tranquillizer), المسكن. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | успокоително средство (anaesthetic, anesthetic, assuagement, calmative, cushion, lenitive, salve, sedative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 镇定药 (tranquillizer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | beroligende middel (ataractic, ataraxic, sedative, tranquillizer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | tranquillizer (tranquillizer), tranquilizer (ataractic, ataraxic, tranquillizer), trankie (ataractic, ataraxic, tranquillizer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مسکن(mosakken), داروی تسکین دهنده . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tranquillisant (tranquillizer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | beruhigungsmittel (bromide, depressant, depressants, downer, placebos, sedation, sedative, sedatives, suppressant, suppressants, tranquillizer, tranquillizers). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κατευνάστησ (allayer, appeaser, mitigator, palliator, soother), κατευναστικό (sedative), ηρεμιστικά (ataractic, ataractic drugs, ataraxic, ataraxics, atarctics, sedatives, tranquillizer, tranquillizers), ησυχαστήσ (quieter), αγχολυτικά (antianxiety agent, antianxiety drug, anxiolytic, anxiolytic agent, anxiolytic agents, ataractic, ataraxic, minor tranquillizer, tranquillizer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | אמצעי "ר'ע" (palliation, sedation), חומר "ר'ע". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nyugtatószer (downer, sedative, tranquillizer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tranquillante (calmative, tranquilizing, tranquillizer, tranquillizing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 鎮痛剤 (painkiller, sedative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | トランキライザー , せいし"あ"ていざい, ち"つうざい (painkiller, sedative), ち"せいざい (painkiller, sedative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 진 (sedative, tranquillizer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | anquilizertray tranquilizante (tranquillizer), calmante (calmative, composing, depressant, easeful, healing, mollifier, painkiller, paregoric, relaxing, salve, tranquillizer). (various references) транквилизатор (tranquillizer). (various references) sredstvo za umirenje (anodyne, tranquillizer). (various references) tranquilizante (calmative, calming, reassuring, tranquillizer). (various references) lugnande medel (lenitive, sedative, tranquillizer). (various references) yatıştırıcı (anodyne, calmative, calming, composing, conciliatory, corrective, demulcent, depressant, low profile, nervine, pacificatory, palliative, paregoric, placatory, propitiatory, salve, sedative, soothing, trank, tranquillizer), sakinleştirici (anodyne, pacificatory, placatory, sedative, soothing, trank, tranquillizer). (various references) транквілізатор (tranquillizer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tranquilizer": tranquilizers. (additional references) | |
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"Tranquilizer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tranquilliser. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tranquilizer" (pronounced tra"ngkwulī'zer) |
| 7 | -k w u l ī' z er | equalizer. |
| 5 | -u l ī' z er | analyzer, fertilizer, stabilizer, sterilizer. |
| 3 | -ī' z er | advertiser, appetizer, atomizer, colonizer, compromiser, energizer, exerciser, franchiser, ionizer, itemizer, merchandiser, moisturizer, organizer, oxidizer, plasticizer, polarizer, popularizer, supervisor, sympathizer, synthesizer, womanizer. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-i-l-n-q-r-r-t-u-z" | |
-1 letter: tranquilize. | |
-2 letters: tranquiler. | |
-3 letters: quantizer, retinular, ritualize, trilinear. | |
-4 letters: airliner, antiquer, aquiline, auntlier, inertial, inquirer, latinize, lazurite, quainter, quantile, quantize, quartern, quartile, quiniela, quintile, requital, retinula, ruralite, ruralize, tenurial, tranquil, triazine, unitizer, utilizer. | |
-5 letters: airline, alunite, antique, azurite, inertia, inquiet, inquire, inutile, latrine, lintier, liquate, nautili, neutral, nitrile, quarrel, quarter, quetzal, quilter, quinate, quinela, quintal. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-i-l-n-q-r-r-t-u-z" | |
+1 letter: tranquilizers, tranquillizer. | |
+2 letters: tranquillizers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 72 61 6E 71 75 69 6C 69 7A 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .-. .- -. --.- ..- .. .-.. .. --.. . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01110010 01100001 01101110 01110001 01110101 01101001 01101100 01101001 01111010 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T r a n q u i l i z e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0072 0061 006E 0071 0075 0069 006C 0069 007A 0065 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)548467808387757875927184 |
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