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- verb Alternative spelling of
tranquilize .
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Examples
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When smokers use EFT to address depression, anxiety, anger, guilt, grief, and fear – the emotional drivers that fuel their cigarette addiction - their need to self-tranquilise diminishes.
Why let smoking kill you? Thatsnews 2006
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When smokers use EFT to address depression, anxiety, anger, guilt, grief, and fear – the emotional drivers that fuel their cigarette addiction - their need to self-tranquilise diminishes.
Archive 2006-08-01 Thatsnews 2006
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The plan, with help from the Free State Parks Board and expert advice from the Mpumalanga Parks Board, was to lure the hippo - whose sex was unknown - into a boma, tranquilise it and transfer it to a game farm 15 kilometres from the dam.
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"It is the means given by the Almighty to tranquilise us - when I say tranquilise I don't mean deaden - but to tranquilise the mind from the impact of Babylon or the material world," Mr
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"President Mandela explained how South Africa found a way to peaceful elections and a form of government able to tranquilise the country, which should be a positive lesson for us, as elections here are also meant to guarantee peace."
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An attempt will first be made to capture the animal or to tranquilise it, Sinha said.
The Guardian World News Jason Burke 2011
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He said they tried to tranquilise one Bengal tiger yesterday but the animal turned aggressive "and we had to put it down".
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He said they tried to tranquilise one Bengal tiger yesterday but the animal turned aggressive "and we had to put it down".
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He said they tried to tranquilise one Bengal tiger late yesterday but the animal turned aggressive "and we had to put it down".
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Staff from animal centres in Columbus, Ohio, about 60 miles 97km east of Zanesville, are on the scene attempting to tranquilise the escaped animals and return them to safety.
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