tranquilliser
IPA: træŋkwˈɪɫaɪzɝ
noun
- Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of tranquilizer. [That which tranquillizes or soothes.]
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Examples of "tranquilliser" in Sentences
- An insistent itch on my throat reminded where the tranquilliser dart had hit home.
- The other leaps at the guard and before it can reach for its tranquilliser gun it is knocked to the floor.
- Julia Cameron talks about words (which many can translate into the internet obsession) as being a tranquilliser.
- It works on physical and mental symptoms of stress, relaxes muscles and anxiety and is a safe, natural tranquilliser that is non-addictive.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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