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There might be something in it that could help—a tranquilizer perhaps.
I suggest that you stretch your legs in the park and feed the swans as a tranquilizer.
WORD ORIGIN
"sedative," 1824 (first reference is to ground ivy), agent noun from tranquilize; in reference to one of a large group of anti-anxiety drugs, it is recorded by 1956.
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narcotic
nounpowerful drug inducing anesthesia or sleeppain killer
nounmedicine to kill painRoget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
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