Definition of "tranquilizing"

tranquilizing

/ˈtɹæŋkwɪˌlaɪzɪŋ/

adjective
comparative more tranquilizing, superlative most tranquilizing
1. Of a drug: having the effect of calming a person or animal, or putting them to sleep; sedating, sedative.
2. (literary) Having the effect of making someone or something tranquil; calming, soothing.
  Quotations
  In a preceding paper I have spoken of an English Sunday in the country, and its tranquilizing effect upon the landscape; but where is its sacred influence more strikingly apparent than in the very heart of that great Babel, London?
  1848, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “A Sunday in London”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. […] (The Works of Washington Irving; II), author’s revised edition, New York, N.Y., London: George P[almer] Putnam, […], page 141
noun
uncountable
1. gerund of tranquilize
  1. The act of calming a person or animal, or putting them to sleep, using a drug.
  2. The act of making someone or something tranquil.
verb
1. present participle and gerund of tranquilize