Tranquilizing

Definition: Tranquilizing

Tranquilizing

Adjective

1. Tending to soothe or tranquilize; "valium has a tranquilizing effect"; "took a hot drink with sedative properties before going to bed".

Date "tranquilizing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1855. (references)

Synonyms: Tranquilizing

Synonyms: ataractic (adj), ataraxic (adj), sedative (adj), tranquilising (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Tranquilizing

English words defined with "tranquilizing": ataractic, ataraxic ♦ oxazepam ♦ sedative, Serax ♦ tranquilising, Tranquillization. (references)

Specialty definitions using "tranquilizing": Central Nervous System Depressants ♦ Dothiepin ♦ Psychotropic Drugs ♦ Sch-23390 ♦ WILDLIFE CONTROL AGENT. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	The Tranquilizing of America (reference) Tranquilizing Agents and Adverse Effects: Medical Subject Analysis and Bibliography (reference) (more book examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	[The tranquilizing chair of Benjamin Rush] / J.J. Barralet del. B. Tanner sc. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
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Author	Quotation
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley	Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose-a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
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Author	Date	Quotation
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.	1963	This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1942)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Barbiturates slow down the central nervous system and cause tranquilizing or antiseizure effects. (references)
		They can have a tranquilizing effect, although physicians and caregivers report varying results with these drugs. (references)
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Expression using "tranquilizing": Tranquilizing Agents. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "tranquilizing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		beruhigend (anodyne, appeasing, becalming, calming, hushing, pacifying, reassuring, reassuringly, salving, sedating, sedative, sedatively, soothing, soothingly, tranquillizing). (various references)

Italian		tranquillante (calmative, tranquilizer, tranquillizer, tranquillizing). (various references)

Pig Latin		anquilizingtray

Russian		успокаивать успокоительный. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Tranquilizing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tranquilising. (additional references)
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# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "tranquilizing" (pronounced tra"ngkwulī'zing)
8	-k w u l ī' z i ng	equalizing.
7	-w u l ī' z i ng	visualizing.
6	-u l ī' z i ng	analyzing, brutalizing, cannibalizing, capitalizing, centralizing, commercializing, criminalizing, crystallizing, decentralizing, demoralizing, denationalizing, destabilizing, editorializing, federalizing, fertilizing, finalizing, formalizing, generalizing, hydrolyzing, idolizing, immobilizing, industrializing, legalizing, liberalizing, marginalizing, materializing, mobilizing, monopolizing, moralizing, nationalizing, neutralizing, normalizing, paralyzing, penalizing, personalizing, rationalizing, recapitalizing, revitalizing, socializing, specializing, stabilizing, sterilizing, symbolizing, tantalizing, trivializing, utilizing, vandalizing, verbalizing.
5	-l ī' z i ng	realizing.
4	-ī' z i ng	advertising, aggrandizing, amortizing, antagonizing, apologizing, appetizing, authorizing, categorizing, characterizing, colorizing, compromising, computerizing, criticizing, customizing, deemphasizing, dehumanizing, demilitarizing, democratizing, demonizing, desensitizing, digitizing, downsizing, dramatizing, economizing, emphasizing, energizing, enterprising, exercising, fantasizing, fraternizing, galvanizing, harmonizing, humanizing, immunizing, improvising, ionizing, ironizing, itemizing, jeopardizing, legitimizing, maximizing, memorizing, merchandising, mesmerizing, minimizing, modernizing, organizing, oxidizing, patronizing, polarizing, politicizing, popularizing, prioritizing, privatizing, proselytizing, publicizing, reauthorizing, recognizing, reorganizing, revolutionizing, romanticizing, sanitizing, satirizing, scrutinizing, securitizing, standardizing, stigmatizing, subsidizing, summarizing, supervising, sympathizing, synthesizing, televising, temporizing, terrorizing, theorizing, unappetizing, unionizing, womanizing.
3	-z i ng	abusing, accusing, advising, agonizing, amazing, amusing, appeasing, appraising, arising, arousing, blazing, boozing, bowsing, browsing, bruising, bulldozing, buzzing, carousing, causing, chastising, choosing, cleansing, closing, composing, comprising, confusing, cruising, decomposing, decriminalizing, defusing, devising, diffusing, disclosing, disguising, disposing, dozing, easing, enclosing, espousing, excusing, exposing, foreclosing, franchising, freezing, fusing, gazing, glamorizing, glazing, grazing, hazing, hosing, housing, immortalizing, imposing, infusing, institutionalizing, losing, misusing, musing, nosing, oozing, opposing, overgrazing, overusing, paraphrasing, pausing, perusing, phasing, phrasing, pleasing, posing, praising, predisposing, proposing, quizzing, raising, razing, recusing, refusing, reimposing, reusing, revising, rising, Rosing, schmoozing, seizing, sensationalizing, sizing, sneezing, snoozing, squeezing, strategizing, supposing, surprising, teasing, uncompromising, unsurprising, uprising, using, victimizing, warehousing, wheezing, whizzing.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-g-i-i-i-l-n-n-q-r-t-u-z"
	-2 letters: ritualizing.
	-3 letters: latinizing, quantizing.
	-4 letters: antiquing, inquiring, liquating, ruinating, unitizing, urinating, utilizing.
	-5 letters: inguinal, linguini, quailing, quanting, quilting, quintain, quirting, ringtail, trailing, training, tranquil, untiring.
	Words containing the letters "a-g-i-i-i-l-n-n-q-r-t-u-z"
	+1 letter: tranquillizing.
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