Other forms: tranquilizers
A tranquilizer is a drug that calms somebody without dulling the mind. Anxiety down, thinking intact.
Medicine divides them into minor tranquilizers, which treat anxiety, and major ones, now usually called antipsychotics. The benzodiazepines that dominated the 1960s and 1970s turned out to be strongly habit-forming, which is why prescribing has tightened a great deal. There is a separate veterinary sense, since a tranquilizer dart sedates a large animal from a distance. British English usually spells it with an s.
1nountranquilizerA drug used to reduce anxiety or agitation.
“She had been on a mild tranquilizer for years.”
Also accepted in games: tranquiliser
From tranquilize + -er.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA