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tranquilliser

tranquilliser is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of tranquilizer.

Meaning of tranquilizer

Noun

tranquilizer (plural tranquilizers)

  1. That which tranquillizes or soothes.
  2. A drug used to reduce anxiety or tension.
    1. (broadly) A gun that fires sedative darts.

Forms of tranquilliser

pluraltranquillisers

Questions about tranquilliser

What is tranquilliser the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Tranquilliser is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of tranquilizer.

Words near tranquilliser in the dictionary

  1. tranquillest
  2. tranquillisation
  3. tranquillisations
  4. tranquillise
  5. tranquillised
  6. tranquilliser
  7. tranquillisers
  8. tranquillising
  9. tranquillisingly
  10. tranquillities
  11. tranquillity

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tranquilliser (page history and authors); tranquilizer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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