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Tranquillizing

adjective
1.
Tending to soothe or tranquilize.  Synonyms: ataractic, ataraxic, sedative, tranquilising, tranquilizing, tranquillising.  "Took a hot drink with sedative properties before going to bed"





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"Tranquillizing" Quotes from Famous Books



... beating and fluttering impotently to get out, at all the doors and windows. So the medical people gave me opium—a preparation of it, called morphine, and ether—and ever since I have been calling it my amreeta draught, my elixir,—because the tranquillizing power has been wonderful. Such a nervous system I have—so irritable naturally, and so shattered by various causes, that the need has continued in a degree until now, and it would be dangerous to leave off the calming remedy, Mr. Jago says, except very slowly ...
— The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 • Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett
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Words linked to "Tranquillizing" :   depressant


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