tranquilize
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tranquilize englanniksi
To calm (a person or animal) or put them to sleep using a dart.
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1962, (w), ''(w),'' New York: Dial, p.(nbs)255,https://archive.org/details/oneflewovercucko00keserich
- Miss Ratched shall line us all against the wall, where we’ll face the terrible maw of a muzzle-loading shotgun which she has loaded with Miltowns! Thorazines! Libriums! Stelazines! And with a wave of her sword, ''blooie!'' Tranquilize all of us completely out of existence.
1962, (w), ''(w),'' Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Chapter(nbs)2, p.(nbs)13,https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20151002/html.php
- When the public protests, confronted with some obvious evidence of damaging results of pesticide applications, it is fed little tranquilizing pills of half truth.
To make (something or someone) tranquil.(w), ''Glossographia,'' London: George Sawbridge, 1661: “''Tranquillize'' (..) to make quiet, still or calm, to cause tranquility.”http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A28464.0001.001
1779, (w), ''(w),'' Dublin: Price, Corcoran ''et al.,'' Volume(nbs)2, Letter(nbs)14, p.(nbs)87,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004822925.0001.002
- (..) with words of sweetest kindness and consolation, he soothed and tranquilised me.
(RQ:Mary Shelley Frankenstein) I feel my heart glow with an enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven, for nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose,—a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
(RQ:Douglass Bondage)
1865, (w), ''(w),'' London: Macmillan, Chapter(nbs)5, p.(nbs)322,https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007370603
- The column was placed under the orders of Major Renaud, who pushed up the road; fighting as occasion offered; tranquillizing the country by the very simple expedient of hanging everybody who showed signs of insubordination (..)
1931, (w), ''(w),'' Chapter(nbs)4,http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks05/0501131h.html
- Supported by an impregnable sense of justice but still dangerously fuming, Lucia went back to her garden-room, to tranquillize herself with an hour’s practice on the new piano.
1995, (w), ''(w),'' Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, Chapter(nbs)11, p.(nbs)497,https://archive.org/details/finebalanc00mist
- But time had tranquillized Dina’s worries about the landlord.
To become tranquil.
(RQ:Richardson Clarissa)
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