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DictionaryRoot: tranquil
English

tranquil

calm, quiet

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A tranquilizer dart beside a rhinoceros resting quietly with a matching dart lodged superficially in its muscular hindquarter, making the drug-delivery object and its calming effect visible together.
noun

tranquilizer

TRANG-kwuh-lye-zer/ˈtræŋkwəˌlaɪzər/

A drug that calms a person or animal.

Etymology
tranquilEnglishcalm, quiet
+izEnglishmake, become, or treat in a particular way
+erEnglisha person or thing that does something

A tranquilizer is literally someone or something that makes calm. The word narrowed from this general calming role to a sedative substance and then to anti-anxiety drugs.

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