Definition of "tranquillizes" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of tranquillize. (verb)

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• "'Tis at such times that the heart spontaneously unbends itself -- that the fancy tranquillizes its thoughts -- and that memory awakens her"
• "Those, however, over whose nerves it spreads only a delightful calm, whose feelings it tranquillizes, and in whom it produces an habitual state of reverie, are those who should be upon their guard lest the drug to which in suffering they owe so much should become in time the direst of curses."
• "It tranquillizes me, even now, to recall the rustic bridge, where I have often stood (it seems to me for hours) and gazed at the gentle stream, as it murmured over the log that lay half-imbedded in the sand, and watched the never-ceasing motion of the graceful “water lilies” which arched the stream below."