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US
/sɪˈdeɪt/
]
[ UK /sɪdˈeɪt/ ]
[ UK /sɪdˈeɪt/ ]
VERB
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cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to
The patient must be sedated before the operation
ADJECTIVE
- characterized by dignity and propriety
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dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises
the judge was solemn as he pronounced sentence
a grave God-fearing man
as sober as a judge
a solemn promise
a quiet sedate nature
How To Use sedate In A Sentence
- If it is less traumatic for the patient, these activities are performed after the patient is sedated.
- This does not reflect well on the sedate, calm and collected gentleman that I hallucinated myself to be.
- For the more sedate, there was ten pin bowling and splat the rat.
- Within 10 minutes we were idling towards a pod of six whales making their sedate way through the wide sweep of the sound opposite the lodge.
- Tabasheer , safflower and calamine can clear away lung heat, expel toxic heat, sedate mind, and calm fright. Savory rhododendron leaf can clear away heat, diminish swelling, and tonify kidney.
- Most of the 200 or so runs across the two mountains are far more sedate, and Whistler is even establishing a reputation as a decent place to learn to ski.
- I would wager that when our defence minister made fun of you, Elsie, he was wearing a boring black or blue suit and a sedate tie.
- 'Tis the novelty of the experiment which makes impressions on their conceptive, cogitative faculties; that do not previse the facility of the operation adequately, with a subact and sedate intellection, associated with diligent and congruous study. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5
- Those selfsame horses were slow and sedate but got things done in their own good time.
- Combined with that, we give a combination of a valium-type drug and an intravenous anaesthetic agent to sedate you during the process.