tranquilizer
IPA: trˈæŋkwʌɫaɪzɝ
noun
- That which tranquillizes or soothes.
- (pharmacology) A drug used to reduce anxiety or tension.
- (loosely) A gun that fires sedative darts
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Examples of "tranquilizer" in Sentences
- In my experience, it is a tranquilizer.
- And cases from one kind of tranquilizer nearly doubled.
- Acaprazine is a tranquilizer of the phenylpiperazine class.
- It is used in the synthesis of the tranquilizer emylcamate.
- The tranquilizer can be a sedative, anaesthetic, or paralytic agent.
- Shooting the animal with a tranquilizer is an option, according to Graves.
- "Maybe they could put some kind of tranquilizer on the pizza to put everyone to sleep," I continued.
- And he and I were talking about the possibility of arufio (ph) or some kind of tranquilizer being slipped in this young woman ` s drink.
- I remember recovering from an operation in the early 1960s and, prior to my discharge, having the doctor prescribe a new, very effective "tranquilizer" to help me sleep.
- About 15 minutes in -- when I realized that Palin was sober and cogent (I am increasingly suspicious that she had downed some kind of tranquilizer or depressant before the Katie interview), that she was going after Biden directly, and that he was not going to go after her -- I began to feel ill.
- The story notes one drug war success -- the elimination of quaaludes, a kind of tranquilizer popular in the late '70s and early' 80s -- and suggests that a similar success could have been had fighting methamphetamine if lobbyists hadn't delayed the enactment of restrictions on precursor chemicals.
- So drugs like fluphenazine (a long-term tranquilizer) is not allowed under most racing jurisdictions or under USEF and FEI rules, but racing jurisdictions may not expend the cost at the lab level to detect this drug that USEF and FEI would because of the potential for abuse in jumpers and show horses.