sedate

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Medicines & drugs: administering drugs & medicines
anaesthesiology
anaesthetize
auto-injector
blood doping
bolus
dispense
inject
knock someone out
lethal dose
lethal injection
medicated
microdose
microdosing
post-injection
put something on
reinject
reinjection
sedate
sedation
tranquillize

Examples of tranquilize

tranquilize
With time running out, they had to tranquilize her.
From CBS News
Later the leopard was tranquilized by wildlife official and taken to the state zoological park.
From ABC News
Doctors in hospitals have successfully tranquilized people with symptoms of excited delirium, and the patients have survived.
From Slate Magazine
Police managed to tranquilize it, but it died shortly after of cardiac arrest.
From ABC News
Why weren't more or all tranquilized?
From Huffington Post
Someone else is lining up a vet team to tranquilize and perform an exam, acquiring permits and other paperwork to take the animals across state lines.
From Huffington Post
Accepting their dissent as valid would certainly be better, and more ethical, than tranquilizing them, restraining them, or training them for use in painful experiments.
The scene was tranquilizing; nevertheless the young man appeared out of harmony with it.
From Project Gutenberg
Perhaps our one hundred and seventeen representatives will then abandon in despair their present dangerous and unconstitutional expedient for tranquilizing the public mind.
From Project Gutenberg
The public mind can not be tranquilized by such a measure.
From Project Gutenberg
It is eminently calculated to tranquilize the heart, come what may.
From Project Gutenberg
The settlers therefore, regardless of political sentiment, united in an effort to tranquilize matters.
From Project Gutenberg
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