Tranquilize vs Tranq - What's the difference?
tranquilize | tranq |
To use a drug to sedate a person or animal.
To make something or someone tranquil; to pacify or calm.
To become tranquil; to relax.
To calm down.
(slang) A tranquilizer.
* 1982 , Sue Grafton, A is for Alibi
* 1992 , Sisters of Mercy, Alice (song)
(slang) To tranquilize.
* 2007 , Michele LeBlanc, Belt Buckles and Pajamas (page 65)
* 2008 , Charlotte Boyett-Compo, In the Arms of the Wind (page 144)
As verbs the difference between tranquilize and tranq
is that tranquilize is to use a drug to sedate a person or animal while tranq is (slang|transitive) to tranquilize.As a noun tranq is
(slang) a tranquilizer.tranquilize
English
Alternative forms
* tranquillize, tranquilise, tranquilliseVerb
Derived terms
* tranquilizer ----tranq
English
Noun
(en noun)- "I gave her a tranq ," he said with anguish. "She asked for one and I found this bottle in the medicine cabinet and gave it to her."
- She needs you like she needs her tranqs / To tell her that the world is clean.
Verb
(en verb)- He was about to stand up and start on another rant, which only would have led to Sam tranqing him.
- He fumbled at the dart but the needle was barbed and wouldn't come out. His fingers slid from it as a powerful numbness began to creep over his extremities. “Got him!” the man who had tranqed him shouted to his buddies.