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  • noun UK, uncommon Alternative spelling of tranquilizer.

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Examples

  • • Meprobamate, a tranquiliser widely used in psychiatric treatment

    Monday Midday « Gerry Canavan 2009

  • Try a deep breath, go to your happy place, drink a glass of wine, and, when all else fails, take an elephant tranquiliser.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Ricci and the Sotomayor Nomination: 2009

  • That's the result of regular depot injections of the antipsychotic major tranquiliser, largactil.

    Lecture On The Legislative Process Newmania 2007

  • Living in a house with noise issues and with my bedroom stationed above the kitchen where most of the activity occurred, I was privy to her stomping around like a fairy elephant each morning, the whispered phone conversations to her drug dealer presumably for horse tranquiliser, and on occasions her hissy fits to uncompliant friends and relatives.

    I do believe I came with a hat. | clusterflock 2009

  • If I were on the team, I wouldnt go anywhere near one of those things in anything less than kevlar and toting a heavy-duty animal tranquiliser with an assault weapon for backup.

    Primeval Episode 8: Let’s Rant! – or – Jack Must Die! « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS 2009

  • The emu was clocked at speeds up to 50 km/h, with police resorting to roadblocks, while the vets were unsuccessful in their attempts to sedate the bird with tranquiliser darts.

    Archive 2007-05-20 Bill Crider 2007

  • The beast got loose during a photo shoot with the Russian Prime Minister who abandoned his pose and picked up a tranquiliser gun.

    Foreign News 2008

  • I'd be pretty charming if I took a tranquiliser every day, not to mention markedly unlined of the brow.

    “Le Ferrari, c’est extraordinaire” 2007

  • "I told (Nieuwoudt and du Plessis) to find a tranquiliser of some kind so we could put them to sleep so they did not wake up when we were eliminating them."

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • When the tension of daily life kinda ties knots in your spirit, why, a song can be your tranquiliser, your quiet pill. '

    Sinatra The Man Behind the Myth Taraborrelli, J. R. 1997

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