Usually means: Calm or sedate using drugs.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word tranquilize:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. tranquilize: Merriam-Webster
  2. tranquilize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tranquilize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tranquilize: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tranquilize: Vocabulary.com
  6. tranquilize: Wordnik
  7. tranquilize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. tranquilize: Wiktionary
  9. tranquilize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. tranquilize (tranquillize): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. tranquilize: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. tranquilize: Dictionary.com
  13. tranquilize: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Tranquilize: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Tranquilize: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. tranquilize: Rhymezone
  17. Tranquilize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. tranquilize: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. tranquilize: FreeDictionary.org
  20. tranquilize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. tranquilize: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tranquilize: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tranquilize: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tranquilize: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. tranquilize: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tranquilize: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See tranquilized as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To calm (a person or animal) or put them to sleep using a tranquilizer dart.
verb:  (transitive, now literary) To make (something or someone) tranquil.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete, rare) To become tranquil.
verb:  (transitive) To dart (a person or animal) with a sedative

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