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tranquilizing

tran·quil·iz·ing/ˈtɹæŋkwɪˌlaɪzɪŋ/adjective, noun, verb

tranquilizing is an adjective meaning “Of a drug: having the effect of calming a person or animal, or putting them to sleep; sedating, sedative” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-R-A-N-Q-U-I-L-I-Z-I-N-G and has 4 syllables (tran·quil·iz·ing), and it appears about once in every 22 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does tranquilizing mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Of a drug: having the effect of calming a person or animal, or putting them to sleep; sedating, sedative.

  2. 2

    Having the effect of making someone or something tranquil; calming, soothing.

noun

  1. 1

    The act of calming a person or animal, or putting them to sleep, using a drug.

  2. 2

    The act of making someone or something tranquil.

verb

  1. 1

    present participle and gerund of tranquilize (a form of tranquilize)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce tranquilizing?

  • US /ˈtɹæŋkwɪˌlaɪzɪŋ/

Tranquilizing has 4 syllables, split tran·quil·iz·ing in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of tranquilizing

  • more tranquilizing comparative
  • most tranquilizing superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is tranquilizing?

Tranquilizing appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 143,405th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Tranquilizing in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Translations:

LanguageWords
Spanishtranquilizador, tranquilizante

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does tranquilizing come from?

From tranquilize + -ing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).