tranquilizing

comparative more tranquilizing · superlative most tranquilizing

1. Of a drug: having the effect of calming a person or animal, or putting them to sleep; sedating, sedative.
2. literaryHaving the effect of making someone or something tranquil; calming, soothing.

   In a preceding paper I have spoken of an English Sunday in the country, and its tranquilizing effect upon the landscape; but where is its sacred influence more strikingly apparent than in the very heart of that great Babel, London?

   1848, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “A Sunday in London”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. […] (The Works of Washington Irving; II), author’s revised edition, New York, N.Y.; London: George P[almer] Putnam, […], →OCLC, page 141

1. gerund of tranquilize
   1. uncountableThe act of calming a person or animal, or putting them to sleep, using a drug.
   2. uncountableThe act of making someone or something tranquil.

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of tranquilize