tranquilize
/ˈtɹeɪ̯ŋkwɪlaɪ̯z/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.58 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The escaped lion was finally tracked down, tranquilized, and safely returned to the zoo."
- "Miss Ratched shall line us all against the wall, where we’ll face the terrible maw of a muzzle-loading shotgun which she has loaded with Miltowns! Thorazines! Libriums! Stelazines! And with a wave of her sword, blooie! Tranquilize all of us completely out of existence."
- "When the public protests, confronted with some obvious evidence of damaging results of pesticide applications, it is fed little tranquilizing pills of half truth."
- "1779, Frances Burney, Evelina, Dublin: Price, Corcoran et al., Volume 2, Letter 14, p. 87, […] with words of sweetest kindness and consolation, he soothed and tranquilised me."
- "[…] I feel my heart glow with an enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven, for nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose,—a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye."
- "This threat, the reader may well suppose, was not very tranquilizing to my feelings."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈtɹeɪ̯ŋkwɪlaɪ̯z/