tranquillizern.
/ˈtraŋkwɪlʌɪzə/ a. One who or that which tranquillizes; spec. any of a large class of drugs in widespread use since the 1950s for the reduction of tension or anxiety and the treatment of psychotic states; also figurative.
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the mind > emotion > calmness > [noun] > calming person or thing
quietera1542
cooler1592
allayment1609
allay1614
julepa1640
composer1649
calmer1653
lull1721
tranquillizer1800
calmant1811
steadier1864
calmative1870
quietive1873
soothment1900
the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [noun] > sedative drug or tablet
tranquillizer1800
goof ball1938
goof pill1948
pill1951
bomber1962
rainbow1963
downer1966
downie1966
down1967
disco biscuit1981
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > sedatives, antispasmodics, etc. > [noun] > tranquillizer
settle-brain1629
tranquillizer1800
quietener1856
calmative1870
quietant1874
ataractic1955
neuroleptic1959
downer1966
trank1967
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > medicine for mental conditions > [noun] > anti-psychotic tranquillizers
tranquillizer1800
thioxanthene1911
phenothiazine1940
piperoxan1950
fluphenazine1959
Melleril1959
thioridazine1959
methotrimeprazine1960
thiothixene1965
molindone1967
pimozide1968
risperidone1988
1800 F. Burney Jrnl. 7 Mar. (1973) IV. 402 I find, however, useful employment the best tranquiliser, &..I have less of the violent emotions which have hitherto torn me.
1824 E. Sutleffe Med. & Surg. Cases I. 2 I invited the attention of the medical world by introducing this herbaceous tranquillizer [sc. ground ivy] to their notice.
1856 T. De Quincey Confessions Eng. Opium-eater (rev. ed.) in Select. Grave & Gay V. 241 A tranquilliser of nervous and anomalous sensations.
1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles III. l. 175 Nightfall..came as a tranquillizer on this March day.
1956 A. Huxley Let. 21 Jan. (1969) 787 Our impressions of the cutting short of the mescalin experience by this new tranquillizer.
1956 Newsweek 21 May 68/1 The other tranquilizers..are all known as ataractics.
1957 Times 12 Mar. 6/6 The rapidly increasing use of drugs described as ‘tranquillizers’ and ‘ataraxics’..has become a cause of concern in many countries.
1958 G. Greene Our Man in Havana iv. ii. 176 He found himself taking to truth like a tranquilliser.
1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XVIII. 595/1 The antipsychotic tranquillizers act solely on the brain itself, whereas anti~anxiety agents act on the spinal cord as well.
1975 N.Y. Times 28 Nov. 37/2 Proposed reforms are only tranquilizers offered in place of the fiscal surgery needed.
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1958 Times 1 Aug. 7/7 Tranquillizer drugs have cured many animals of the zoo of ‘emotional strain and anti~social behaviour’.
1961 Daily Tel. 13 Sept. 19/4 Inside the needle is a tranquilliser solution which, when aimed accurately into an unruly dog.., makes the animal docile.
1979 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 16 Apr. 9/3 Humane society inspectors arrived and captured the animal with the help of a tranquillizer gun.
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