Tranquilliser

Word TRANQUILLISER
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Definitions and meanings of "Tranquilliser"

What do we mean by tranquilliser?

That which tranquillizes or soothes.

A drug used to reduce anxiety or tension; a sedative.

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The word "tranquilliser" in example sentences

In a post-match press conference, the Norwich manager used a phrase so wildly outside the lexicon of professional football that when I heard it I could only conclude the Premier League pressure was beginning to tell, and that – if measures were not taken – the Scot would soon be rampaging butt-naked across East Anglia until tree'd by pursuing bloodhounds and brought down by a police marksman with a tranquilliser dart. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The other leaps at the guard and before it can reach for its tranquilliser gun it is knocked to the floor. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Julia Cameron talks about words (which many can translate into the internet obsession) as being a tranquilliser. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A conversion and a subsequent penalty for Flood and England were 10-0 up, having applied the ideal tranquilliser dart in terms of quelling the home crowd. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In 2008 he accepted a tiger cub as a birthday present (the donor was never disclosed) and in the same year was at the centre of an extraordinary drama when it was claimed that he shot an Amur tiger with a tranquilliser dart to save the lives of a television crew. ❋ Gethin Chamberlain In Delhi (2010)

The crocodile, named Chu Chu, severed Mr Chang's forearm at the Shaoshan Zoo in the southern city of Kaohsiung when the veterinarian tried to retrieve a tranquilliser dart from the reptile's hide. ❋ Bill Crider (2007)

It is sometimes described as a neuroleptic or a 'major tranquilliser', though this last term is fairly misleading, as this type of medicine is not just a tranquilliser, but has many actions in a variety of mental illnesses. ❋ Newmania (2007)

It works on physical and mental symptoms of stress, relaxes muscles and anxiety and is a safe, natural tranquilliser that is non-addictive. ❋ Thatsnews (2008)

An insistent itch on my throat reminded where the tranquilliser dart had hit home. ❋ Mark Gatiss (2008)

Apart from this population, the drug is still administered as a tranquilliser for animals, and also young children for whom the trippy effects don't seem to occur. ❋ Unknown (2005)

"Concern over Russia's treatment of journalists covering the Beslan siege increased yesterday after a toxicologist revealed that traces of a tranquilliser had been found in a reporter who was arrested on her way to the school." ❋ As'ad (2004)

Bothma injected a tranquilliser into their soft drinks. ❋ Unknown (2000)

I find myself thinking of you sitting there with your knitting when I'm confronted by an over-large clinic and you act upon me like a tranquilliser. ❋ Neels, Betty (1999)

I've hardly ever been in their bedroom ¦ they have a heavy brass clock ¦ modern ¦ 'Her voice was cracking, and Jett would have reckoned she needed a tranquilliser, or better, a hug. ❋ Francis, Dick (1999)

All I wanted was to finish my mild tranquilliser, go home, find something to eat, and sleep. ❋ Francis, Dick (1995)

Too early for a drink but not too early for that other tranquilliser. ❋ Beaton, M. C. (1985)

He made it impossible for me to say take a tranquilliser and I'll come in the morning, and anyway by the sound of his voice nothing short of a full anaesthetic was going to give him any rest. ❋ Francis, Dick, 1920- (1974)

It might even have been a tranquilliser which started him off, I thought fleetingly. ❋ Francis, Dick, 1920- (1966)

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