Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of tranquilize.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Making tranquil; calming.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. tending to soothe or tranquilize
Examples
“For a moment, you dive back into your pillow (one of the nine offered on the hotel's pillow menu; the "tranquilizing" one works as advertised), then grudgingly slide out of your four-poster, king-size, carved-teak bed, pad across the tea-stained silk rug and gaze out your suite's floor-to-ceiling windows.”
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“That’s not exactly what I would call a tranquilizing experience.”
“He does not love being reminded of that number, but during his career he has watched tennis evolve from wood to steel to carbon fiber, from a game of finesse and tranquilizing sounds to a slugfest.”
“His clothes were cut off and something was stuffed in his anus, likely a tranquilizing suppository.”
“NEW YORK—Europe's never-ending drama is tranquilizing Treasurys to the point where even mounting signs of a healing U.S. economy can't rouse bond bears.”
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“This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.”
“Mr. Putin has ridden the windfall of oil and gas revenues for a good decade, buying off the middle classes, tranquilizing his country, and justifying his authoritarianism at home as the price of restoration of grandeur and power abroad.”
“It also explains why a ride in the car or a train can be equally as tranquilizing.”
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“But when she meets Antoine (Antoine Bourseiller), a kind-hearted soldier on leave, in the park, he has a tranquilizing effect on the ravishing singer's anxiety.”
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“I describe our era as an Age of Trauma because the tranquilizing illusions of our everyday world seem in our time to be severely threatened from all sides -- by global diminution of natural resources, by global warming, by global nuclear proliferation, by global terrorism, and by global economic collapse.”
The Huffington Post: Robert D. Stolorow: Collective Trauma and Existential Anxiety
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