verb
- Make calm or still.
- usage: "quiet the dragons of worry and fear"
- synonyms: calm, calm down, quiet, tranquilize, tranquillize, tranquillise, quieten, lull, still
- Cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to.
- usage: "The patient must be sedated before the operation"
- synonyms: sedate, calm, tranquilize, tranquillize, tranquillise
adjective
- Tending to soothe or tranquilize.
- usage: "valium has a tranquilizing effect"; "took a hot drink with sedative properties before going to bed"
- synonyms: ataractic, ataraxic, sedative, tranquillizing, tranquilising, tranquillising
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