Thesaurus results for TRANQUILIZER

tranquilizer

noun

variants also tranquillizer

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as in sedative

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Recent Examples of tranquilizer After that, officials decided to use tranquilizer darts to take down the animals believed to be the three adults in the pack before euthanizing them. —

Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 27 Jan. 2026 Recent years, for example, have seen a major increase in adulteration with the horse tranquilizer xylazine, which knocks users out but doesn’t satisfy the opioid craving. —

Charles Fain Lehman, The Atlantic, 20 Jan. 2026 After ambushing Fuller at her mansion, Teddy and his accomplice/cousin Don (Aidan Delbis) knock her unconscious with a tranquilizer and load her into the backseat of her own car. —

Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025 Spike takes one of Kelson's tranquilizer darts filled with morphine and stabs Samson in the arm with it. —

Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tranquilizer

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sedative

Noun

All Florida executions are carried out via lethal injection using a sedative, a paralytic and a drug that stops the heart, according to the Department of Corrections.

— CBS Miami Team, CBS News, 17 Mar. 2026
All Florida executions are carried out by injecting a sedative, a paralytic and a drug that stops the heart, according to the Department of Corrections.

— DAVID FISCHER, Sun Sentinel, 17 Mar. 2026