Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of tranquilizing, or the state of being tranquilized. Also spelled tranquilisation, tranquillisation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of tranquilizing, or the state of being tranquilized.
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- noun Alternative form of
tranquillization .
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Examples
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Steve must have achieved a certain level of tranquilization from the tequila and grass, because he just shook his head and sighed.
The Emerald Triangle Archer, Miles 2003
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So there's no medication, there's no tranquilization, it's very hard for them to believe the truth of this situation.
CNN Transcript - CNN Late Edition: Elian Gonzalez Case: What Happens Now? - April 23, 2000 2000
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His throat was too tight to swallow, his stomach a tight, cold knot, and as for his nerves-if he'd had a client as wrought up as he was, he would have recommended immediate tranquilization by a Healer.
The Silver Gryphon Lackey, Mercedes 1996
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His throat was too tight to swallow, his stomach a tight, cold knot, and as for his nerves-if he'd had a client as wrought up as he was, he would have recommended immediate tranquilization by a Healer.
The Silver Gryphon Lackey, Mercedes 1996
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There were benches and attendants who offered massage, tranquilization, and a host of other elegant services.
The Man Who Used the Universe Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983
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There were benches and attendants who offered massage, tranquilization, and a host of other elegant services.
The Man Who Used The Universe Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983
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One of the bulls, Lolita, died under tranquilization.
City of Baraboo Longyear, Barry 1980
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Rest, first under sedation, later under tranquilization, and medicine and nourishment had made her beautiful.
The Rebel Worlds Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1972
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“Why is there anything at all?” or “Why is what there is the way it is?” are unanswerable not because they are too difficult, or surpass the limits of human intelli - gence altogether, but because all (legitimate) explana - tion (in contradistinction to tranquilization by means of verbal sedatives) inevitably proceeds from premisses which are themselves unexplained, at least in the given context of inquiry.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas HERBERT FEIGL 1968
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William Grove's absence in Washington: it was a step toward a final resolution, a tranquilization, of the pressure at home.
Cytherea Joseph Hergesheimer 1917
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