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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: make calm or still; "quiet the dragons of worry and fear" [syn: calm, calm down, quiet, tranquilize, tranquillize, tranquillise, quieten, lull, still] [ant: agitate, charge, charge up, commove, excite, rouse, turn on]
2: cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to; "The patient must be sedated before the operation" [syn: sedate, calm, tranquilize, tranquillize, tranquillise] [ant: arouse, brace, energise, energize, perk up, stimulate]

Merriam Webster's

verb see tranquilize

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. (US tranquilize, -ise) make tranquil, esp. by a drug etc.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tranquilize Tran"quil*ize, Tranquillize Tran"quil*lize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tranquilizedor Tranquilliized; p. pr. & vb. n. Tranquilizingor Tranquillizing.] [Cf. F. tranquilliser.] To render tranquil; to allay when agitated; to compose; to make calm and peaceful; as, to tranquilize a state disturbed by factions or civil commotions; to tranquilize the mind. Syn: To quiet; compose; still; soothe; appease; calm; pacify.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(tranquillizes, tranquillizing, tranquillized) Note: The spellings 'tranquilize' in American English, and 'tranquillise' in British English, are also used. To tranquillize a person or an animal means to make them become calm, sleepy, or unconscious by means of a drug. This powerful drug is used to tranquilize patients undergoing surgery. = sedate VERB: V n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. Calm, quiet, silent, still, compose, lull, hush, quell, lay, allay, pacify, soothe, appease, assuage, moderate, make tranquil.