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tranquilize

verb as in make calm, quiet

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The animal was tranquilized again, then moved to a bear trap that had been placed on a trailer, the news outlet reported.

A cocktail of drugs that are commonly used to tranquilize wildlife was found in one of the 49-year-old woman’s bones but there was no indication of trauma, the report said.

She searched online and was stunned to read it’s used to tranquilize horses.

BUTLER, Pa. — A woman was injured in a bear attack while letting her dog outside, and Pennsylvania game commission employees killed the mother bear and tranquilized her three yearling cubs, authorities said.

Disaster nearly struck early in the relocation effort, when a tranquilized rhino stumbled into a creek.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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