tranquilizing

IPA: trˈæŋkwʌɫaɪzɪŋ

Of a drug: having the effect of calming a person or animal, or putting them to sleep; sedating, sedative.
(literary) Having the effect of making someone or something tranquil; calming, soothing.

Examples of "tranquilizing" in Sentences

That’s not exactly what I would call a tranquilizing experience.
His clothes were cut off and something was stuffed in his anus, likely a tranquilizing suppository.
This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.
NEW YORK—Europe's never-ending drama is tranquilizing Treasurys to the point where even mounting signs of a healing U.S. economy can't rouse bond bears.
He does not love being reminded of that number, but during his career he has watched tennis evolve from wood to steel to carbon fiber, from a game of finesse and tranquilizing sounds to a slugfest.
Mr. Putin has ridden the windfall of oil and gas revenues for a good decade, buying off the middle classes, tranquilizing his country, and justifying his authoritarianism at home as the price of restoration of grandeur and power abroad.
For a moment, you dive back into your pillow (one of the nine offered on the hotel's pillow menu; the "tranquilizing" one works as advertised), then grudgingly slide out of your four-poster, king-size, carved-teak bed, pad across the tea-stained silk rug and gaze out your suite's floor-to-ceiling windows.