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tranquilized

tranquilized is the simple past and past participle of tranquilize.

Meaning of tranquilize

Verb

tranquilize (third-person singular simple present tranquilizes, present participle tranquilizing, simple past and past participle tranquilized)

  1. (transitive) To calm (a person or animal) or put them to sleep using a tranquilizer dart.
    • The escaped lion was finally tracked down, tranquilized, and safely returned to the zoo.
    Synonyms:
    dart, sedate
  2. (literary, transitive) To make (something or someone) tranquil.
    • […] with words of sweetest kindness and consolation, he soothed and tranquilised me.1779, Frances Burney, Evelina, Dublin: Price, Corcoran et al., Volume 2, Letter 14, p. 87
    Synonyms:
    appease, calm, pacify
  3. (intransitive, obsolete, rare) To become tranquil.
    • Seest thou not, that this unseasonable gravity is admitted to quell the palpitations of this unmanageable heart? But still it will go on with its boundings. I’ll try, as I ride in my chariot, to tranquillize.1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter I”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume V, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by John Osborn, […], →OCLC, page 11
    Synonyms:
    calm down, relax
  4. (transitive) To dart (a person or animal) with a sedative
    • The bear should go down several minutes after being tranquilized.

Forms of tranquilized

comparativemore tranquilized
superlativemost tranquilized

Words formed from tranquilized

Questions about tranquilized

What is tranquilized the simple past and past participle of?
Tranquilized is the simple past and past participle of tranquilize.

Words near tranquilized in the dictionary

  1. tranquilities
  2. tranquility
  3. tranquilization
  4. tranquilizations
  5. tranquilize
  6. tranquilized
  7. tranquilizer
  8. tranquilizer dart
  9. tranquilizer darts
  10. tranquilizers
  11. tranquilizes

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