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tranquillizing

tranquillizing is the alternative spelling of tranquilizing.

tranquillizing is the present participle and gerund of tranquillize Alternative spelling of tranquilizing.

Meaning of tranquilizing

Adjective

tranquilizing (comparative more tranquilizing, superlative most tranquilizing)

  1. Of a drug: having the effect of calming a person or animal, or putting them to sleep; sedating, sedative.
  2. (literary) Having the effect of making someone or something tranquil; calming, soothing.
    • In a preceding paper I have spoken of an English Sunday in the country, and its tranquilizing effect upon the landscape; but where is its sacred influence more strikingly apparent than in the very heart of that great Babel, London?1848, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “A Sunday in London”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. […] (The Works of Washington Irving; II), author’s revised edition, New York...

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Forms of tranquillizing

comparativemore tranquillizing
superlativemost tranquillizing

Words formed from tranquillizing

Questions about tranquillizing

What is tranquillizing the alternative spelling of?
Tranquillizing is the alternative spelling of tranquilizing.

Words near tranquillizing in the dictionary

  1. tranquillize
  2. tranquillized
  3. tranquillizer
  4. tranquillizers
  5. tranquillizes
  6. tranquillizing
  7. tranquillizingly
  8. tranquilly
  9. tranquilness
  10. trans
  11. trans bash

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