Sedate in a sentence as a verb

There's nothing any hospital can do for you except sedate you until you're dead.

Don't, or you'll set the rest of them off and then the doctors will come and sedate everybody again.

That's like saying "we're not banning *****, we're just banning ***** unless you're a surgeon that needs ***** to sedate a patient".

I've been reading as many Nexus 7 reviews as I can in a vain effort to sedate my excitement for its arrival later this month.

Sedate in a sentence as an adjective

So if you're used to sleeping for eight hours at a time...should you set your alarm for four hours, wake up, do something sedate for a while, and then go back to bed?

Doctors can prescribe a short run of Diazepam which will help with the physical effects and also sedate your addiction a little.

Similarly, it's obvious that pharmaceutical compounds affect animal awareness - because vets use things like that all the time to sedate animals for surgery.

Sedate definitions

verb

cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to; "The patient must be sedated before the operation"

See also: calm tranquilize tranquillize tranquillise

adjective

characterized by dignity and propriety

See also: staid

adjective

dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises; "a grave God-fearing man"; "a quiet sedate nature"; "as sober as a judge"; "a solemn promise"; "the judge was solemn as he pronounced sentence"

See also: grave sober solemn